TIANJIN, China (AP) — Rescuers have pulled a survivor from an industrial zone about 32 hours after it was devastated by huge blasts in China's Tianjin port. Meanwhile, authorities are moving gingerly forward in dealing with a fire still smoldering amid potentially dangerous chemicals. The two explosions late Wednesday killed at least 50 people and injured hundreds. They originated in shipping containers and struck a mostly nonresidential warehouse district. The death toll included a dozen firefighters sent in after the first blast, and would have been much higher in a populated area. The official Xinhua News agency said one person was rescued from the neighborhood about 7 a.m. on Friday. It gave no details of the rescue and it was not immediately clear if the person had been trapped under debris since Wednesday night.
1 person rescued from blast zone in China's Tianjin port
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Smoke billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China\'s Tianjin municipality, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses said Thursday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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