Bingang City is fictitious and has no administrative district map. The Bingang oil tank farm explosion was fictional in the movie. From Heroes of Fire.
The film is adapted from Baoji Yuanye’s long reportage work "The Deepest Water Is Tears". The story is based on the Dalian 716 oil explosion fire. It tells the story of a fire in a coastal oil tank area and the firefighting team. A story about the unity of all the people, resisting to the death, and protecting the safety of the government and the people's property with their lives.
At 14:25 on July 16, 2010, the heat exchanger of the 10 million tons atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit leaked and caused a fire in the Dalian Petrochemical Company of PetroChina. PetroChina issued a statement saying that the open fire had been extinguished and the accident caused no casualties and no environmental pollution.
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The explosion of the 716 oil pipeline in Dalian Xingang was the most difficult explosion and firefighting of a crude oil pipeline storage tank since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is also the prototype of the real events behind the movie "Heroes of Fire" released today. Thanks to those firefighters who fought hard and risked their lives to save the beautiful city of Dalian
It is understood that on July 16, 2010, Dalian PetroChina International, located in Dalian Free Trade Zone, Dalian City, Liaoning Province An explosion occurred in the pipeline in the crude oil tank area of ??the Storage and Transportation Co., Ltd., causing a large amount of crude oil to leak and cause a fire.
One year later, on July 16, a leak occurred in the heat exchanger of the 10 million tons atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit in the Dalian Petrochemical Company of PetroChina, causing another fire. However, according to PetroChina's external statement, the accident caused no casualties and no environmental pollution.