Fire ravages Shanghai skyscraper

Aly Song / Reuters

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a building in Shanghai, on November 15, 2010.

By Mish Whalen

 

See more photos from this fatal blaze here. 

China's state news agency reports at least 42 people have been killed after a 28-story apartment building caught fire in Shanghai, China. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.

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Comment author avatarfsticfrankie

I guess it needed a plane to hit it for it to collapse.

    Reply#1 - Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:21 AM EST
    Comment author avatarVova-3648257

    "Achilles' heel" of skyscrapers is a problem of evacuation of people from high-rise floors from a building facade. The most inexpensive and effective system for really safe and comfortable evacuation of people from skyscrapers is the Russian fire-evacuation system Automatic Rescue Climber - ARC (especially it is already used on some skyscrapers):

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    Reply#2 - Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:11 PM EDT
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