At 7 o'clock in the evening today (23rd), a tin house on Tan Kwai Tsuen Road in Yuen Long suddenly caught fire. The fire was raging and a lot of black smoke was emitted.
After receiving the report, the firefighter found that the area of the fire was 20 meters by 20 meters. Two teams of breathing apparatus and two jets were dispatched to fight the blaze. The fire was put out after about half an hour.
After investigation by the police, it is believed that someone caught fire on the stove during cooking in a tin hut on the site. The fire later spread to 8 other tin huts. There is no suspicious cause of the fire.
No one was injured in the incident, and about 24 people were evacuated to a safe location.
(Facebook group Zhonghonghuiqiao Neighborhood. Uploaded by Netizen Choi Wing Yan Kero)
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