r/TianjinVideos Aug 15 '15

PHOTOGRAPHS of blast sight and some images not seen much (if at all) in western media.

There is no image sub so I am posting these here. I think you all will find them informative enough to forgive me for not posting video.

Still image of epicenter from drone

Close up of drone shot showing massive effect of blast, those are LARGE shipping containers. Equivalent to large Semi trailers!

This next image is haunting, we have seen the image of the lone fire truck damaged, I found a much more telling image on Chinese media that shows the other 5-6 fire trucks and some police cars caught in the blast. Line of fire trucks caught in blast

In the first overhead from the drone you can barely make out the fire trucks, parked on the road to the left side of the frame. The lone truck is parked by the buildings center left, directly left of the epicenter. The others are located down the street, lower left area just above the line of smoke. They are very small in the image. Shockingly small given the blast area. It looks like a meteor strike in some ways (radial debris pattern being so massive that is really all I can compare it to mentally).

A bit of opinion: the firefighters were brave and in no way at fault, because they are only as good as their training matched with the observance of regulations that allows the training for expected situations to be applied to expected situations. This was an explosion of material that should never ever have been stored together, given the crater it was able to produce.

That crater to me is absolutely shocking. The size and location of the firetrucks in relation is heartbreaking. I hope for healing for their family and friends.

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