The director of the Hong Kong Fire Department said that the Fire Department will be reasonable.A senior fire division head leadership set up a task force to investigate the cause of the fatal fire of Huafeng Building and the cause of the accident caused by multiple casualties.
Comprehensive network media "Hong Kong 01" and Radio Hong Kong reported that Huafeng Building, Huafeng Building, Jordan Road, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, had a third -level fire alarm on Wednesday (April 10).Injuried.
The Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao passed the newsletter that morning to explain to the three -level fire police. He expressed his mourning of multiple casualties and deeply condolences to the family members and wounded of the deceased.
Li Jiachao expressed great importance to the incident, and has instructed the hospital administration to fully treat the injured. The police offices, fire offices and other relevant departments investigated the reasons for the fire and caused serious casualties.He also instructed the Civil Affairs Agency and the Social Welfare Department and other departments to do a good job in good after -quality work, providing all the assistance to the family members of the deceased and the residents affected by the fire police.
At about 1 pm, the director of the Hong Kong Security Bureau Deng Bingqiang was accompanied by Yang Enjian to inspect the disaster relief work at the fire police scene.During the period, Deng Bingqiang went to the fire -fighting command car to understand the situation, and then put on fire clothes to the building to inspect.
Yang Enjian first met with the family members of the fire policemen when he met with the reporter.He said that he had explained the fire extinguishing operation and strategy to Deng Bingqiang, and emphasized that the Fire Department attaches great importance to the third -level fire alarm and will set up a task force. The leader of a senior fire zone may investigate the cause of fire and the fire alarm caused multiple casualties.
The commander of the Hong Kong Fire Protection Zone (Kowloon South) Lin Jianjun said that the Fire Department received a fire alarm at 7.53 am. After three minutes, the firefighters arrived. Due to the fierce fire and multiple help cases,At 8:04, it was rose to a third -level fire alarm.At 8:54 am, the fire was surrounded, and the fire was controlled at 10 am, and the fire was roughly extinguished at 10:30.The fire field is mainly on the first and second floors, with an area of 20 meters by 20 meters.
Lin Jianjun introduced that the position of the fire was the first and second floor lobby, which was located at the fitness center and did not involve the hotel.There are multiple licensed hotels on the first and second floors.There are more than 30 licensed hotels and mortuary in the entire building. No structural transformation has been seen for the time being.The fire offices found that there were many light boxes and other items on the first floor, which were plastic substances.
The Hong Kong Fire Department approved the senior assistant ambulance chief of the ambulance (Kowloon and Lantau Island) Tang Sihao said that the Fire Department sent a total of 18 ambulances, two special support teams, a mobile wounded car treatment vehicle, an auxiliary medical careEquipped with a car, two beds and passenger transporting dual -use vehicles.
Tang Sihao said that the ambulance personnel handled 41 wounded (16 men and 25 women) at the scene and aged 18 to 94.38 of them were sent to four hospitals, and the three of them refused to be sent to the hospital after on -site governance.Five of those who were sent to the hospital were mainly burned and inhaled damage.
The positions found by the five deceaseds, one person on the seventh to eighth floor, the three people on the corridor on the second floor, and one suspected that he fell to the canopy on the first floor.Because the rescue process is too urgent, the nationality of the wounded needs to be understood, but including mainland China and non -Chinese people.
The Criminal Department (Action) of the West Kowloon Region (Action), Jia Jinlin, called on someone to contact the police to provide information if someone witnessed the fire police.Police will investigate in a criminal direction, but whether anyone is responsible for criminal is yet to be investigated.
The Hong Kong Housing Bureau stated that colleagues in relevant groups of the Bureau and the Housing Department will keep close contact with the Civil Affairs Office and the Social Affairs Department, and try their best to provide appropriate assistance to residents who are affected by the fire.
Liang Xi, a member of the Legislative Council of the Democratic Construction Federation, said that the Democratic Construction Federation team is actively contacting the hotels in the area to provide free rooms, so that residents who cannot go home that night to live for free were temporarily temporarily lived.
