Hero, 73, rescues man third his age

An elderly man became an unlikely hero of the Wong Chuk Hang Estate fire yesterday when he rescued a man about a third of his age.

Yim Chi, 73, was eating lunch with his wife in their 10th-floor flat when they saw smoke from the fire which had broken out in a neighbouring unit.

'I ventured out of the house but the smoke was so thick that I couldn't see much,' Mr Yim said.

'A young man fainted after inhaling too much smoke. After moving him to a safe spot, my wife and I managed to wake him up,' he said, adding he believed the man was about 25.