内容摘要：At Agritopia, a community nestled around a plot of agricultural land, residential homes are intentionally close to the farm, April 22, 2025, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

At Agritopia, a community nestled around a plot of agricultural land, residential homes are intentionally close to the farm, April 22, 2025, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers searched Wednesday for six people still missing after an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China shook nearby buildings, killing at least five people and injuring 19.It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at an industrial park in the Shandong province city of Weifang. The explosion knocked out windows of nearby buildings and spewed a thick plume of white smoke, according to videos shared on social media.

Nearby residents on Wednesday were grappling with how or whether to rebuild damaged homes, while provincial authorities vowed to eliminate any further risks to ensure safety in manufacturing.Zhang Liyou, who runs a restaurant about 1 kilometer away (less than a mile away) from the explosion site, was serving lunch when the blast occurred, shattering the restaurant’s windows and causing part of its ceiling paneling to collapse.Fortunately, neither him nor the handful of diners were harmed, he told The Associated Press, but the restaurant building, which also doubled as his home was covered with debris. He said he didn’t know if he would reopen.

“There is no way for us to do the business anymore,” he said with a sigh.The plant was separated from a nearby village by just a wheat field less than 700 meters (about a half mile) across. Residents told a state-backed media outlet, the Paper, that the blast had warped shutter doors, cracked walls and dislodged pieces of concrete from their roofs, and that they were worried about the structural integrity of their homes.

The plant is owned by Gaomi Youdao Chemical Co., a producer of pesticides and chemicals for medical use with more than 500 employees, according to corporate registration records.

Local fire officials sent more than 230 personnel to the scene, according to state broadcaster CCTV.The seas were particularly rough that day, with winds up to 35 knots, common for the North Sea but also not what one might call safe. Chris and Dave were in the middle of their work when they heard the urgent calls to abort: The dynamic positioning system in the support vessel above had failed and they were in drift. Chris scrambled to maneuver out of the pipeline corridors, but his umbilical got caught. For a brief, awful moment he’s the anchor to the ship above, but soon enough the cord snapped, and he was thrown back to the ocean floor in pitch black with no coms, no heat and very little hope for survival. News articles about the incident clock his backup oxygen supply as being closer to five or six minutes – perhaps the movie wanted to give the audience a little buffer.

If this sounds at all familiar, it may be because it was made into a documentary, also called “Last Breath” and released in 2019. While it was well-received, some true stories are just too gripping to exist solely in that form. It’s not exactly a surprise that a narrative film was made as well. There’s a good track record of recent complimentary adaptations — think Ron Howard’s “13 Lives” and “The Rescue” about the Thai boys soccer team stuck in the cave.This one was made by Alex Parkinson, the same director who co-directed the doc, and it’s a well-executed narrative interpretation that doesn’t get in its own way with padding. Harrelson gets to be the wise mentor who really doesn’t want to lose someone on his last mission. Liu gets to flex his action muscles (literally and figuratively) in a modest but solid role. And they don’t go out of their way to shoehorn in a villain — this is just a group of people trying their best to save a life.

The only real problem, if one can even call it that, is that it’s so short. The film doesn’t take liberties with stretching out the timeline much at all and after 93 minutes, the whole thing is over. It feels strange to want a movie to be longer, but in the case of “Last Breath” I was both desperate for it to end, for anxiety reasons, and also wanting more.“Last Breath,” a Focus Features release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 Motion Picture Association for “brief strong language.” Running time: 93 minutes. Three stars out of four.