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Hong Kong Fire LIVE VISUALS: 44 Dead In Tai Po Fire | Flame Engulfs Residential Building | CNBC TV18
Dozens killed, hundreds missing: Rescuers are searching for hundreds of missing people after a fire raced through several high-rise buildings in a Hong Kong apartment complex, killing at least 44 people.
• Still burning: Some of the buildings in the complex, home to a large population of elderly residents, are still ablaze in what appears to be the city’s most deadly fire since World War II. The fire began on the bamboo scaffolding outside one of the buildings. This type of scaffolding, made from bamboo poles used by workers during repairs, burns very easily. Once the scaffolding caught fire, the flames quickly spread up the structure and into the building, and then to nearby towers.
The blaze is Hong Kong’s deadliest fire since at least August 1962, when a fire in the city’s Sham Shui Po district killed 44 people. A fire at the Garley Building on Nathan Road in Kowloon killed 41 people and injured 81 others in November 1996.

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大埔宏福苑發生五級火，增至13人死亡15人傷。其中9人在現場證實死亡，另外4人送抵醫院後不治。一名消防員在火警中殉職。傷者分別被送往北區醫院、威爾斯醫院及大埔那打素醫院。 消防處表示，火警涉及多幢32層高住宅，全部搭建了棚架進行維修，由於外圍棚架起火並蔓延，現場環境非常惡劣，不斷有雜物跌下來，求助案亦增加，因此要將火警升至五級。警方已設立熱線讓市民查詢火警的死傷者資料，熱線號碼為1878 999。 警方在下午近3時接獲途人報案，指宏昌閣的外牆棚架起火，之後陸續收到許多住客報案指在單位內未能逃生，包括宏昌閣、宏泰閣及宏新閣。 宏福苑共有8幢大廈，翻查業主立案法團資料，屋苑正進行大維修，包括進行外牆批盪噴漿，所有大廈均搭有棚架及蓋上棚網。

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