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    3. Vv4nd on

      Pretty sure those number will go up. What a horrifying way to go as well.
      Just days before before some inhabitants were filming the workers with lit zigarettes.
      Safety rules are written in blood and I´d say that it´s fairly likely some human fuckup like smoking could have cause this.

    4. KidKilobyte on

      I’m sure they’ll be amending construction codes in Hong Kong soon; the cause of this fire was renovation. These buildings were surrounded with a cocoon of bamboo scaffolding. Bamboo is currently required for this kind of work in Hong Kong based on various environmental concerns and historical preservation codes.

    5. humunculus43 on

      It is so sad to see another Grenfell style situation happen in another country. Deaths like these are entirely preventable with having proper external wall systems. In this case it seems the choice of material for scaffolding was woefully inadequate for safety. So sad

    8. DaySecure7642 on

      This fire is just a symptom of a bigger problem to Hong Kong and the rest of the world. On the surface, the government is getting less efficient now, from enforcing fire safety standards to fire fighting. Something like this never happened to this scale in the past in Hong Kong.

      More broadly, the city is going downhill real fast. Most economic rankings drop rapidly. The government budget deficits have been about 100 billion in the red every year, for many years. In recent years they started borrowing to make the book look not as bad, and cut lots of public services to try balancing the book.

      Meanwhile other mainland China cities are directly competing with Hong Kong and snag market shares from logistics, shipping, finance etc., while the central government puts out empty words of „full support of HK prosperity“. Beyond the propaganda, CCP just wanted the land and the narrative of „getting back Hong Kong to heal the 100yrs humiliation“. They don’t really care about the people living there. See how people act, not what people say.

      In reality, the rise of China only benefits the welfare of, specifically, the Han mainlander Chinese in the collusion circles, but in the expenses of everyone else, including Hong Kong, Macau, Xinjiang, Tibet, very soon Taiwan and of course, the rest of the world.

      This mega fire and lots of corruption scandals in recent years in Hong Kong are just the symptoms of much bigger problems about to happen to this world when China becomes the No.1.

    10. AveryLakotaValiant on

      Makes me wonder why all those towers went up, was it embers blowing across from the first one that caught fire?

      Awful though, those poor people.

    12. GarbonzoBeanSprout on

      My condolences to the family and friends who lost their loved ones. 💔

    13. 16ap on

      The images and videos are horrific. My heart stopped for a moment. Haven’t seen an urban fire like that ever not even in films.

    14. Sailor_Rout on

      Reminds me of the Garley Building Fire in Hong Kong in the 90s caused by bamboo scaffolding and no sprinklers

    15. Dennyisthepisslord on

      Hopefully the number of missing will be revised down as it’s a chaotic situation and not everyone will be properly accounted for yet.

      Unfortunately it seems likely the death toll will also rise. At least it was in the daytime so many people wouldn’t have been home or at least been awake. If this happened in the dead of night the toll would be far worse.

      The Grenfell tower fire in London nearly a decade ago had 70+ people die and yet at first many more were unaccounted for

    17. darcerin on

      This is my honest-to-God nightmare – being trapped in a burning building. Those poor souls. I cannot even imagine the terror they experienced.

    18. ninjastk on

      At least… most probably passed out or died from the smoke and was too late to get out.

    20. insid3outl4w on

      Wasn’t there a video from china recently showing a tiny tiny room apartment in which the person couldn’t even walk straight as their shoulders touched both walls? I feel like many buildings in china aren’t up to standard with building safety in mind.

      How fire safe were these tower blocks? How much of this was preventable?

    21. ailish on

      This is awful. It is so sad watching things like this happen, and I’ll bet it was preventable.

    22. AveryLakotaValiant on

      „While the cause of the fire that engulfed the multiple high-rise blocks is unknown, the flames are believed to have spread quickly through the bamboo scaffolding that covered the buildings, which were undergoing renovations.“

      Jeesh, bamboo scaffolding.

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