Fire engulfs apartment high-rise downtown - ShanghaiDaily.com
By Liang Yiwen | 2010-11-15
Fire broke out in a building near the intersection of Yuyao Road and Jiaozhou Road around 2pm today.
FIREFIGHTERS are trying to rescue residents trapped in an apartment building that caught fire in the city's Jing'an District.
The fire broke out in a building near the intersection of Yuyao Road and Jiaozhou Road around 2pm today.
One of the three residential buildings is engulfed with black smoke rising high into the sky.
The apartment building has about 20 shops on the ground level and many residents were spotted inside the high-rise.
A man was seen hanging out the window, desperately waiting for his rescue, a Shanghai Daily journalist reported at the site.
A helicopter has been dispatched to the site to assist the rescue operation.
Shanghai Daily will keep you updated on the fire fight.
Original: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=454628&type=Metro
Update: Deadly downtown high-rise fire put out after 5 hours
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How many more?
How many more of these will the world have to see to understand the unequivocal explosive nature of the collapses of the Twin Towers and their little sister? I wonder.
Comparisons...
... to WTC seem to be occurring on a lot of forums, with many people pointing out the obvious. These discussions are worth participating in.
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Care to supply some links? to save us time looking for it.
Thanks in advance.
Yahoo News
I participated in related debates on Yahoo News and in the discussion forum of the Finnish national daily newspaper. Here's the Yahoo News link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101115/ap_on_re_as/as_china_fire#mwpphu-con...
40 second video of the fire