The red brick and stone, the smokeandsoot, and the sounds and smells of Old Shanghai provide sharp relief to the shiny new Pudong financial centre across the river.
The flames are expected to destroy between 50 to 90 percent of the oil in that section, and winds should blow the resulting cloud of smokeandsoot out to sea, said Lt.
For energy, more than a billion tons of coal -- a quarter of the world's total output -- are burned every year, coating metropolitan areas with sulfur dioxide, sootandsmoke.