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Rescuers pulled survivor from blast zone in China’s Tianjin port

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency smoke and fire erupt into the night sky after an explosion in the Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Thursday Aug. 13, 2015. Chinese state media reported huge explosions at the Tianjin port late Wednesday with large numbers of people reported injured.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency smoke and fire erupt into the night sky after an explosion in the Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Thursday Aug. 13, 2015. Chinese state media reported huge explosions at the Tianjin port late Wednesday with large numbers of people reported injured. In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency smoke and fire erupt into the night sky after an explosion in the Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Thursday Aug. 13, 2015. Chinese state media reported huge explosions at the Tianjin port late Wednesday with large numbers of people reported injured.

By Associated Press 1 min read

TIANJIN, China – 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.