Hong Kong high-rise building on Fire

[meadow_wind]

Thanks for sharing. I watch their show regularly and was searching for one their video's to share this as well, but couldn't find it. They also talk alot about sloppy construction, relative new buildings and bridges failing and wide spread corruption in the chain, which makes construction companies cut safety issues and try to cover that up. I even saw a video of a styrofoom beam painted grey, so it could pass as steel.

CNA just released a more indepth video about why three people were arrested. Apparently they found styrofoom and plastics in the appartment buildings. If these materials have also been used widely in this project, it is no suprise that the whole building caught fire.

At 5:26 min of this video:
The entire renovation project cost about 42 million $ USD. When that contract was first approved, residents were required to pay quite hefty installments, and they were not very comfortable with it. A majority of people living here are above 65 yrs old. We are talking about a subsidized housing project and people not being able to afford to pay for this (...)

 

[Tuulikki]

It could be the general age of most of the residents would be a problem when trying to escape. What a terrible tragedy.