CCTV/TVCC Fire: photos, video
I’ll try to post later if I have more time about the fire here in Beijing, but we were right in the heart of it.
We can see the TVCC building’s all-metal west facade from our living room window, so imagine our shock when at 930pm, we see it lit up like a vertical kebab grill, glowing orange. It was 40-stories of flames and smoke. After grabbing video camera, SLR, tripod, Blackberry and cell phones, we ran out of the apartment to report the story (all in less than two minutes).
You can see some of the Flickr photos I’ve taken, of the fire and morning after. The images have been featured in a number of places, thanks to Twittering: Shanghaiist, Gizmodo, Curbed to name a few. This has driven about 15,000 image views in just under 36 hours. [Flickr]
Here’s the video story I worked on with the Wall Street Journal that evening with reporter/wife Mei Fong. (Flash needed)
UPDATE: The Dezeen architecture and design blog also carried the photos, which has pushed image views to over 24,000.
UPDATE 2: Actually the number of image views is north of 65,000, since it seems the 24,000 number is only for photos visited through the main set.
