Tianjin

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(08-13-2015, 01:34 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Earlier today they said there were only 13 people killed.  From the way it looked in the video I don't see how there were not many times that many dead.  The fireball was hundreds of feet high.

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.