Woman found dead after fire in Hong Kong flat
Third-alarm blaze broke out in Yuen Long residential estate building just after 5.20pm on Sunday
A 56-year-old woman was found dead inside a Hong Kong flat after firefighters put out a third-alarm blaze in the building on Sunday night.
The city’s Fire Services Department was alerted at 5.21pm when the fire broke out on the 10th floor in block five of Emerald Green residential estate in Yuen Long on Shap Pat Heung Road.
Firefighters arrived four minutes later. At 6.01pm, the department upgraded the incident’s status to alarm No 3 – on a scale of one to five, with five being the most severe – to allocate more resources.
They used a turntable ladder to free three residents stranded on a balcony from a flat next to the one on fire. Another 20 were helped to leave the building from a number of floors.
Two residents suffered from smoke inhalation and were taken to Pok Oi Hospital.