January 2012 Zhejiang chemical plant explosion

At 21:50 on January 4th Xu, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, Town Xiangyang Chemical Factory workshop dichloroethane reactor exploded and caused a fire, seven workers were trapped.
5, according to Nanhu District Government Information Office released the morning news that the accident has caused three people were killed and four wounded.
Night of the incident 21:57, Jiaxing Fire Brigade Secret Squadron received a report immediately sent four cars rushed to the scene disposal 22. 22:03, Xiuzhou, Jiaxing Economic Development Zone, lotus embankment, Jiashan fire squadron of 6 car 27 people rushed to the scene to reinforce. Meanwhile, public security, health, security and environmental protection departments have also rushed to the scene involved in the rescue.
22:10, rescue workers arrived at the scene to start fighting rescue operations, search and rescue has seven, and rushed to hospital. Jiaxing Fire Brigade Secret lead a squadron arrived at the scene found the fire place is to place the reactor plant, about four or five stories high. Live fire into the sky, smoke huge, almost burned through the roof of the workshop, but also the unknown liquid drops out.
In addition, according to the factory shop floor workers said at the time heard a boring explosion, and the explosion of the workshop is being produced. Shortly workshop within seven trapped firefighters, police, mass Qi carried away, then he was rushed to hospital.
23:00, live fire was completely extinguished. The accident has killed three people died and another four people were injured in hospital.
Later, reporters learned from the fire department, then sunny chemical plant explosion is dichloroethane plant reactor. Since the explosion and fire caused by the surrounding environment may have some contamination, the local environmental protection departments have also started the first time sudden environmental pollution accident emergency plan.
At 22:50 on the 4th Xu, Internet users on the microblogging broke the news, said two loud bangs heard in Jiaxing Industrial Park, a direction, a loud noise at a red.
As of 23 am on the 4th, the fire has been controlled. Fire officers conducted a number of search and rescue workshop, they found no trapped.
It is understood that environmental protection departments to monitor, found no impact on the accident scene and the surrounding environment.
Currently, the cause of the accident is under investigation.