标题: 天津大爆炸，消防员之殇: NYT [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-18-2015 12:05 标题: 天津大爆炸，消防员之殇: NYT 本帖最后由 choi 于 8-18-2015 12:34 编辑
杰安迪, 天津大爆炸，消防员之殇. 纽约时报中文网, Aug 18, 2015
cn.nytimes.com/china/20150818/c18tianjin/
, which is translated from
Andrew Jacobs, China Blasts Take Big Toll on Fire Crew; Reports of a car ablaze, then huge explosions. New York Times, Aug 18, 2015.
four consecutive paragraphs:
"Initial reports described a car on fire. But the 60 or so men who first arrived at the scene — contract firefighters employed by the Tianjin Port Group, many of them as young as 17 — confronted a blaze that had spread to metal shipping containers stored nearby. The firefighters aimed their hoses at the flames and turned on the water.
"That turned out to be a deadly mistake.
"Roughly 15 minutes later, an explosion — fueled by a collection of volatile chemicals that emit a combustible gas when wet — ripped through the warehouse. Yang Kekai 杨克凯, 27, was thrown to the ground as flaming debris rained down. Another blast, seconds later, sent him hurtling more than three yards. 'When I was flying through the air, my heart skipped a beat and I thought I was finished,' Mr Yang said later from a hospital bed.