VIDEO: It was like hell: A firefighter who survived Tianjin blast speaks of his experience

“The whole sky was lit up. And, the blast wave sent me into the air. My helmet was gone. It was like a different world, with flames falling like raindrops on my head. The visibility was four to five meters.”
“Then, I looked for safer places to hide and searched for [my] colleagues. But, I couldn’t see any of them. The visibility was very low. I called their names, but no-one responded.” Xiao said one of his colleagues, who was 23-years-old died in the explosions.