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The fire alarm has sounded. The city with its crowded tower blocks, tiny subdivided flats and outdated safety measures is one big fire risk.
A deadly blaze in a 60-year-old tenement block has again driven home that under no circumstances can safety be compromised.
Recurrence of deadly blazes at old buildings calls for more proactive measures to prevent fires and find ways to make structures safe.
Report into city cable bridge blaze that plunged thousand of homes, businesses and public facilities into darkness leaves many questions still to be answered.
What people most want to know is how such a crisis can be prevented from happening again
Blaze at city skyscraper under renovation led to 1,300 people being evacuated and just 13 injuries, but an investigation must ascertain why fire-prevention installations were switched off and who did it.
- Development chief Bernadette Linn reveals plan after city leader pledges to review enforcement priorities for buildings failing to comply with fire safety orders
- She says government will also target buildings that have not complied with mandatory inspection orders
City leader John Lee says Security Bureau told to table legal amendments for Legco in two to three months, week after fire at New Lucky House left five dead.
Residents of New Lucky House in Yau Ma Tei face blackened and burned flats, debris and exposed electrical wiring.
Some tenants have resumed living in their flats, although they express fears about lack of security once cordon lifted.
One-fifth of those buildings are located in Yau Tsim Mong, home to 60-year-old New Lucky House where blaze killed five and injured 43 others.
Knowing your exits and staying calm is key to getting out of a burning building, but decision to hunker down means assessing risks and keeping smoke out.
Man Suet-leung, 34, and his colleagues had just started work at a Yau Ma Tei construction site when they heard screams for help.
A preliminary investigation suggests blaze started when piles of plastic rubbish bags burst into flames at the first floor of New Lucky House in Yau Ma Tei.
Some frustrated at long-standing safety worries, blaming owners’ corporation over inaction despite warnings and official orders.
Buildings Department says fire safety orders issued in 2008, but owners’ corporation had still not met requirements.
Massive blaze at Housing Society site in Tin Shui Wai brought under control, after marathon effort by firefighters who also deployed drones and robots.
Five people died and 43 were injured in fire that broke out on Wednesday morning at 16-storey New Lucky House in Kowloon. Here, the Post looks back at some of the most destructive fires over the past decades.
Dozens of guest houses, 100 subdivided flats and many commercial premises fill New Lucky House on Kowloon’s Jordan Road
Emergency responders previously could only fight Tin Shui Wai fire from the periphery and fly drones to conduct inspections of blaze that broke out on Tuesday.
One of the victims suspected to have jumped off 16-storey building in Yau Ma Tei in a bid to escape blaze, fire services official says.
Police say 27 people were trapped by fire on Luk Chau at 11.47am on Ching Ming Festival.
Police say preliminary investigation finds blaze started at flat in Yu Tai Court on Lantau Island when tenant attempted to cook with blowtorch.
Blaze occurred in a village called San Sang Tsuen on Tin Ha Road in Yuen Long at about 8.44am on Monday.
Firefighters discover remains after extinguishing blaze in flat on 21st floor of Tsuen Wing Lau at Lai Tak Estate in Tai Hang.
Man, aged between 40 and 60, hospitalised in a critical condition after serious smoke inhalation.
Police investigating cause of fire that forced rescuers to evacuate 22 people and resulted in another 60 fleeing the area.
Man dies in flat fire; video footage and photos circulated online show flames and smoke billowing out building.
