08-13-2015, 06:29 PM
(08-13-2015, 02:51 PM)Stewy Wrote: I agree the death toll will likely go up, but it might stay lowish since this happened at night.
Unfortunately, a similar explosion happened in Texas city in 1947 with hundreds of people on the dock of a ship with 230 tons of fertilizer burning on board, when it exploded. 15 hours later another ship carrying thousands of tons of fertilizer had caught fire and blew up as well.
http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
My guess is whatever blew up in China was fertilizer or a similar chemical.
During WWII there was a huge explosion in Port Chicago outside of San Francisco that killed hundreds of sailors who were loading bombs onto ships.
