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Nearly 300 firefighters were deployed to battle the blaze in the northern port city of Tianjin.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I don’t understand how it could get to that point. I don’t know what code these were built to but a high rise office building in my country would have to be non combustible construction and depending on the year it was built have sprinklers. Office buildings are typically low hazard occupancies with limited fuel loads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

China probably has more high-rise buildings than your country has low-rise buildings... Are you surprised?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I live in Canada… so yes you are probably right based just on population alone.

I’m not surprised, I would say disappointed though.

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