天津大爆炸，消防员之殇: NYT

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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.

"Most of his colleagues were not so lucky.