(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) A fire in a hotel under construction in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong was on Thursday (March 2) in the middle of the night, and several nearby buildings, including Sheraton Hotel, were affected, and the fire burned for more than nine hours.At 8 am, Xu was roughly extinguished.The official has not received a report on the casualties, and the two were sent to hospital for discomfort.
Comprehensive Hong Kong 01 and Sing Tao Daily reported that the fire location was the site of the 11th hotel at Tsim Sha Tsui. It was originally a 42 -story building high. The building is currently being reconstructed. It was originally expected to be completed this year.A fire broke out at 11 o'clock that night.
On -site pictures showed that at that time, the fire was fierce, and half of the buildings fell into the sea of fire, emerged with rolling smoke, and could see Mars in the sky.26 minutes after the fire, the Hong Kong Fire Department promoted the fire alarm to three levels, and then promoted to four levels after 1:46 am on Friday.
The style is very large affected by 170 people near the nearby five buildings
Tsim Sha Tsui is a shopping tourist area in Hong Kong, with dense buildings, and a large number of shops, restaurants, hotels, museums and exhibition halls are concentrated.When the fire occurred, the scene was very strong. A large number of fire dandruff was blown to other buildings, and there were debris falling to the ground. At least five buildings nearby were affected, including the International Telecommunications Building, the Far East Building, the Sheraton Hotel, the Chongqing Building, and the Star Towerwait.
Among them, there were tents on the top floor of the Sheraton Hotel, which was burned by fire dandruff, and the International Telecom Building platform was also affected by fire. There were smokes in the high -rise positions of the Chongqing Building, and many residents hurriedly escaped.Firefighters rushed to different scenes to extinguish the fire.
A total of 170 people were evacuated near the fire, and at least two were injured and sent to the hospital. It is reported that nearby drivers were suspected to be burned by fire dandruff in the fire.
According to the website of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the fire was controlled at 8:08 am on Friday and was roughly extinguished at 8:30.
Lin Zhenmin, a spokesman for the Fire Branch of the Hong Kong Engineer Society, said that it is believed that the fire building did not have any fire protection facilities in the interior during the reconstruction stage.
Pan Yonghong, chief researcher of Hong Kong strategy, went to the scene to inspect that it was believed that the possibility of demolishing the reconstruction of the hotel construction site was lower.He said that overheating will cause the steel bars to rise, causing the concrete cracking structure to cause problems; but after inspection, he found that the concrete of the building had no burst.
The fire building was reconstructed by the Imperial Group, a former chairman of Hong Kong's Sun Hung Kai Real Estate, and invested in Guo Bingxiang during his lifetime. It is expected that the total investment is HK $ 6 billion (about S $ 1 billion) and rebuilt into a 42 -storey comprehensive building.According to the plan, the lower floor of the building will be used as a seafare party club. The nine or more is the hotel's use. There are about 500 rooms, which will be operated by the Intercontinental Hotel Group.
This is not the first fire in the building. In September last year, the project scaffolded fire. At that time, about 50 workers had to evacuate to a safe place.
