Very low chance it will happen here lah, we using metal/aluminium scaffolding, normally high rise building exterior maintenance involving in painting or water proofing only

It’s practically 7 blocks of ovens, there’s no where to hide from the roasting heat even if one can avoid the smoke.

Almost everything become flammable under intense heat. So many household items would had started burning, bathroom is the only place with least flammable items…but in the end victims either died due to smoke or roasted alive by the intense heat. 

Definitely, those 3 assholes are the scapegoats. The latest news report indirectly shows that a lot of players are complicit.

The company had a record of repeat offender for safety offences, 'authorities visited the site 16 times & launched 3 safety violations between July 24 & earlier this.month'.

Warning was last issued on Nov 20 to step up fire prevention yet no stop work order despite multiple violations

Project consultant give it the highest rating B during tender process & claimed they are clean no previous offences.

If this not open complicit & bribery involved then tge earth is flat.

All this are on south China morning post btw.

ours is almost all RC wall partition for residential building

unlikely it can spread that fast even it is gas fire

I think HK will be record holder for many decades to come with this “7 towers ablaze” tragedy. Hopefully no other countries would ever come close to such record.

Hope the Hongkies ditch their proud bamboos heritage and move on with metal scaffolding like the rest of the world.

I think high density and crowded blocks next to each other also may not resulted in similar tragedy. This historical HK tragedy was due to all 8 blocks of apartments fully wrapped in flammable materials.

In normal apartment fire, it is abnormal to burn down whole block, even less likely to spread to other blocks.

The UK apartment burnt down because they use flammable heat proofing material on the external wall due to their seasonal climate. Our apartment wall here is merely concrete.

Cant imagine this happen in Rumah Wip... HK 8 blocks apartment are just under 2k unit or 250 unit per tower... rumah wip....i think more than 4/500 unit per tower?