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Huge fire rages in China office building (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 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] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume they were built to any code.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It seems similar to the last time an office building caught fire like this in China. The building was fairly fire resistant except for the facade which was made of materials that burn up really fast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Combustible aluminum cladding with a flammable insulation layer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The UK had Grenfell just a few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Alright ya know that is a really fair point. I'm sure regulation and code enforcement has a role to play here but keeping in mind they probably have twice the amount of high rise structures compared to anyone is a pretty big factor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You'd be surprised. Grenfell fire in the UK and that building that collapsed a week after it was declared fit just happened like a month ago in the US. Corruption is everywhere.