Nearly 300 firefighters were deployed to battle the blaze in the northern port city of Tianjin.
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.
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.
The UK had Grenfell just a few years ago.
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China probably has more high-rise buildings than your country has low-rise buildings… Are you surprised?
