Mr Song holds up a piece of shattered glass. The night of the explosion, he was attending a training conference, but his father was at his apartment. “I rushed back as quickly as I could and looked for my father. He’d run out of the apartment so quickly he didn’t have time to remove his shoes. His feet were cut by the glass”.
A chemical warehouse explosion in Binhai New District, Tianjin on August 12 destroyed thousands of houses and claimed the lives of over 100 people. 

宋拾起一块玻璃碎片。宋在国企工作，事故当晚正好参加塘沽三天的培训，只有自己的老父亲在家。得知消息后，宋满城寻找父亲，他的父亲在逃离中丢失了鞋子，脚底被玻璃划伤，都不知道疼。
8月12日，天津滨海新区发生危险品仓库火灾爆炸事故，摧毁了上千栋房屋，造成了超过一百人死亡。