Firefighting, China-style

Anyone who has seen the fire brigade attend a fire in China will not find anything remarkable in this story.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/9961047/Firefighting-China-style

 

after 12 year in country, I still have my WTF?!? moments. Watching this is one of them.

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!

hhhmmm, laugh all you want, but, honestly, apart from running as fast as you can what would you do with a burning gas bottle?

The second fireman with bad aim...well, I reckon he was likely trying to cool down his burning gas bottle hugging comrade rather trying to put out a gas fire with water, so he didn't look too dumb to me.

But, should't they have been equipped with some kind of 'foam' substance for smothering that type of fire?

I'm so pleased everything around me is made of concrete and can't burn even if you want it to  Rx except Kostya of course, he'd burn 

R:

but, honestly, apart from running as fast as you can what would you do with a burning gas bottle?

leave it alone. According to the report, the building was empty and pretty much destroyed already, so it wouldn't have done much damage even if it had exploded. Come to think of it, an exploding bottle might do more damage/ccause more csualties outside than in.
So why would anyone want to do this? Was the restaurant owner crying "My propane bottle! My propane bottle! Never mind saving the cook, I paid a deposit on the bottle!"?  Possibly, but I doubt it. More likely the firefighter was thinking something like: "Oh boy, Uncle Zhou got me this job as a firefighter, now I can show everyone what a hero I am! I hope soomeone is taking video!"

The second fireman with bad aim...well, I reckon he was likely trying to cool down his burning gas bottle hugging comrade rather trying to put out a gas fire with water, so he didn't look too dumb to me.

That's what I thought too. I can imagine him thinking "If that flackwit ruins a perfectly good new firesuit, I don't care how many favours I owe brother Xiao, my nephew can go work for someone else!"

I was thinking he either....
Didn't know how dangerous it was (training in China does lack a certain.....training)
or... he hoped to get a 'died in work' payout for his family.

That was potentially a bomb, and a dumb ass move to carry it out in to an area with people.

Common sense would dictate turning the valve off, which would stop the fire immediately, but I didn't notice if it was present or not.

China is the place where miracle happens. So enjoy your life in China. I had enough of it, so I left.