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

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    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.

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    I wonder if this has anything to do with the real estate crisis. Shitty situation all around, but I sure hope we’re not just burning buildings and fucking the environment to get out of bad business deals.

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    Seems to be a lot of this lately. Insurance fraud? (dumping empty buildings?) Or just poor sprinkler/fire suppression?

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        And? This story literally is only relevant to China and the local population. This doesn’t affect the rest of the world in any way.

        So why is this “world news”?

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          Were you posting this shit around the Grenfell tower fire? The Seoul crush? If you’d gone back in time what would your reaction to the Hindenburg be?

          Shut your xenophobic ass up and sit the fuck down as we mourn a tragic loss of life. We’re all human and this is a moment to reflect on that fact. Use it. You need it.

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      Riiiight. Definitely made with Western AI generation. There is no way such a disaster could ever occur in glorious China.