Fire 1

[dik]

A huge fire has engulfed a 33-storey tower block in the southern South Korean city of Ulsan.

Video footage showed flames spreading across all of the Samhwan Art Nouveau commercial and residential building.

Hundreds of people were reportedly evacuated, including from the roof, the Yonhap news agency said, with dozens suffering smoke inhalation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54470378

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik

 

[JohnRBaker]

There's a big Hyundai assembly plant there that I visited years ago.

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[masonrygeek]

There have been many examples of cladding fires such as this around the world. How safe are we in US from conflagrations such as this? Combustible claddings are used all the time...

 

[hokie66]

Another in a long line of flammable cladding fires.

 

[FacEngrPE]

Nam-gu, Ulsan, on October 8 about 11:07 PM
waking up to this is not fun

https://www.allkpop.com/article/202...ential-apartment-complex-in-ulsan-south-korea

There have been way too many of these fires - but the low casualty count indicates the Ulsan Fire department mounted an effective response.

Fred

 

[LionelHutz]

The design and manufacturing of these cladding materials that has led to all these cladding fires is a sad engineering failure. It should become a future ethics example for up and coming engineers to study. I think the lucky part has been the ability to get the windows to provide an effective enough fire barrier to let the people evacuate.