An unusual situation occurred during the rescue operation after a huge fire in Hong Kong. At one point, when firefighters were checking a burnt skyscraper, they saw a glow of light. It turned out to come from a man who was trapped in the building but isolated from the smoke and toxic fumes. The man used a flashlight to flash light signals, thanks to which his “cry for help” was noticed.
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Fire in Hong Kong. Firefighters rescued a man trapped in the building
Firefighters reached the place where the injured person was on time. The man managed to get out of the building a day after the disaster. This rescue operation was considered a symbol of hope.
Preliminary findings indicate that the flames that appeared on the scaffolding of one of the buildings on Wednesday afternoon spread rapidly through the flammable Styrofoam covering the elevator windows and protective nets on the bamboo scaffolding. The fire destroyed a total of seven of the eight high-rise buildings of the Wang Fuk Court complex, inhabited by over 4.6 thousand people. people.
So far, it has been established that at least 83 people died as a result of the fire in Hong Kong's skyscrapers, and 300 are still missing. According to Reuters, police detained two directors and a consulting engineer at Prestige Construction, a company that renovated the buildings. They are suspected of unintentionally causing death through the use of hazardous materials. Authorities have launched a criminal and anti-corruption investigation into the worst fire in decades.
