Contractor Admits Negligence in Hong Kong Tai Po Fire Hearing
During public hearings for Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in decades in Tai Po, a contractor has admitted negligence concerning problems with water tanks.
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Tai Po fire hearing: contractor admits negligence over problems with water tanks
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Public hearings by a judge-led independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades have entered their sixth day and will continue to focus on the deactivation of the fire alarm system and its impact on the ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate. Chung Kit-man, director and engineer of Victory Fire Engineering, the contractor responsib...
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A director of a Hong Kong fire safety contractor has defended his firm’s inaction despite knowing that the alarms at Wang Fuk Court were disabled a week before a massive blaze that killed 168 people. Chung Kit-man, a director and engineer at Victory Fire Engineering, continued his testimony on Tuesday before an independent committee tasked […]
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