Thirteen people including a firefighter have been killed and at least 15 others are critically injured in an inferno ravaging a housing estate in Hong Kong’s Tai Po neighbourhood, as flames lash over bamboo scaffolding across seven blocks with multiple residents trapped inside.
Huge plumes of dark smoke billowed high into the sky at the scene at Wang Fuk Court on Wednesday, with the flames quickly spreading to seven out of eight blocks in the estate.
It seems to have started in the bamboo scaffolding. I’ve long been a fan of bamboo, even for scaffolding. Light, stiff, ecological. Used for millennia. But this tragedy may well make changes.
