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

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

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[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] umad_cause_ibad@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year 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.