Fire

22 Nov 2012

11:36PM

Police explanation of deadly Fujian bus blaze questioned by sceptics

14 Jun 2013

Soon after a fire on a crowded commuter bus killed 47 people and injured 34, authorities offered an explanation: One of the dead had written a suicide note, boarded the bus during the evening rush...

4:43AM

Teenager dies in Yuen Long village house blaze

27 May 2013

Firefighters had to force open the locked metal gate to the three-storey village house before they could get inside, said Wu Tze-fung, the Fire Services Department's divisional commander in New...

4:22AM

What's being said on facebook.com/southchinamorningpost

8 May 2013

On the fire which ripped through a cluster of stilt homes in Tai O:

3:22AM

Vulnerable Tai O in need of help

6 May 2013

Tai O fishing village is an enduring tourist attraction that owes little to the kind of extravagant spending and promotion lavished on theme parks. It thrives on the timeless appeal of a simple,...

2:55AM

Gutted Tai O village's fire extinguishers not properly maintained

4 May 2013

Records on pressurised water extinguishers in Sha Chai Min and Sam Chung in the Lantau Island fishing village showed some were last maintained in August 2010 and others in 2011. Labels on the...

5:44AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Wooden stilt houses go up in flames at Lantau's Tai O

No casualties were reported. Last night, about 10 households that were left homeless were put up by the Housing Department at the Lung Tin Transit Centre, on a public housing estate.

5:40AM

Wong Tai Sin fire blazes for seven hours, 700 evacuated

A fire which broke out early yesterday at a market in Wong Tai Sin blazed for seven hours and forced the evacuation of about 700 people. Eight people aged between 13 and 85 suffered smoke...

6:28AM

Firemen defend Ap Lei Chau operation

Firefighters deployed to a blaze on the 17th storey of an Ap Lei Chau residential block on Thursday raised a ladder from a fire engine only 45 minutes after the alarm was sounded, the Fire...

5:42AM

FIRE

Seven injured in Ap Lei Chau apartment blaze

Five people were injured when a fire broke out at South Horizons housing estate in Ap Lei Chau early on Thursday and more than 100 residents were roused from sleep and evacuated. Water had to be...

4:51AM

THAILAND

Death toll from Thai refugee camp blaze rises to 36, officials say

The fire, which broke out on Friday in Mae Hong Son province, about 900km north of Bangkok, has left more than 2,000 people homeless.

6:01PM

THAILAND

Fire at Thai refugee camp on Myanmar border leaves 30 dead

Thirty people were killed and about 200 injured yesterday when a fire broke out in a camp in northern Thailand housing refugees from neighbouring Myanmar, Thai officials said. Many of the victims...

2:37AM