Cadet 'may have been too eager'

A cadet firefighter who died during a training exercise may have been over-keen to prove himself, Chief Fire Officer Lau Shu-lam told an inquest yesterday.

Allan Ng Lai-kwong, 34, collapsed inside a smoke-filled simulator on July 10, 1997, and died in hospital the next morning from heat stroke.

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