This morning (1st), a fire broke out in a residential unit in Shing On Building, Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, resulting in 4 injuries. The injured were a couple and a couple.
It is reported that the injured 2 men and 2 women are both residents of the building. Among them, a 42-year-old woman surnamed Zhong and a 35-year-old man surnamed Chen are a couple. They were suspected of climbing out of the window to escape during the fire. They fell from the 6th floor and were injured. Zhong Nu, who was in the canopy on the 1st floor of the lane, fell into a coma. She was rescued by the fire department and sent to the hospital. After that, she regained consciousness, and her boyfriend was sent to the hospital sober.
During the fire, another couple escaped from the unit where the fire started. The 34-year-old husband Luo and his 43-year-old wife Lu both suffered burns on their backs. They were sent to the hospital by ambulance for treatment.
By 9:00 a.m., detectives from the police serious crime team arrived at the scene.
The fire department said that the unit that started the fire was suspected to be a subdivided apartment and was divided into 5 sub-units. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The unit responsible for the accident was torched, the exterior wall of the building was severely blackened, the windows of the unit were burnt to the point of deformation, and an air conditioner flew to the ground.
By noon, the four injured were in critical and serious condition.
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The incident happened at 7:35 in the morning today (1st), a fire broke out in a residential unit at 99 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, and a large amount of smoke was emitted from the unit.
Some residents were trapped on the floor of the building. Firefighters dispatched firefighters and rescued the injured 2 men and 2 women, and then put out the fire.
About 37 people in the fire were evacuated by themselves. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Detectives from the police major crime team arrived at the scene to investigate.
By noon, the couple who fell from the building included a 42-year-old woman surnamed Zhong in serious condition and a 35-year-old man surnamed Chen in critical condition.
As for the couple, a 34-year-old man surnamed Luo is in serious condition, and a 43-year-old woman surnamed Lu is in critical condition.
The fire unit is suspected to be a subdivided unit couple and the couple were injured
Senior Fire Chief Hu Zhenhao pointed out that the fire department received a report at 7:35 this morning that a fire broke out in a unit on the sixth floor of Shing On Building, 99-101 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, and the fire department arrived at the scene four minutes later.
Personnel found that the site was a 4-meter by 4-meter sub-unit.
During the operation, the fire department dispatched 8 fire trucks and 4 ambulances, as well as 60 firefighters and ambulancemen, and used 1 hose and 2 smoke teams to put out the fire. The fire was extinguished after about 15 minutes.
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During the operation, 37 people evacuated to a safe place by themselves, and 4 people were injured, including 2 men and 2 women.
Among them, 1 man and 1 woman escaped from the hit-hit unit. They suffered burns. The other 1 man and 1 woman fell to the platform on the first floor when they escaped through the window.
Paramedic Wang Jinhui said that two men and two women were found injured at the scene.
A 35-year-old woman suffered fractures to her right hand and foot, a 35-year-old man suffered a bruise on her back, and two other men and women suffered back burns.
The stairs are narrow and there are sundries. The building has no fire fighting equipment
It is reported that the two injured people who fell from the building were residents of the same floor of the unit that started the fire.
Hu Zhenhao said that the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the fire unit is divided into 5 sub-units.
In addition, two injured people fell to the platform from a height, and the fire department needs to allocate resources for firefighting and rescue operations.
The building that caused the accident was completed in 1965. According to the fire department's knowledge, there was no fire-fighting equipment at the time of its completion. The officers will follow up with the relevant units and buildings.
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A unit in Yau Ma Tei burst into flames, 4 female residents were injured, and 4 female residents escaped and fell into a coma