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A fast-moving fire that tore through several high-rise buildings in a Hong Kong apartment complex has killed at least 55 people, with many residents still missing. Rescuers pulled an elderly man alive from a smouldering block as parts of the complex continued to burn 24 hours later. The buildings, home to many elderly residents, were under renovation and covered in bamboo scaffolding. Three construction workers have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.     #HongKongFire #HighRiseBlaze #DeadlyInferno #HongKongTragedy #ApartmentFire #BreakingNews #FireRescue #CityDisaster #UrbanFire #MajorBlaze #EmergencyResponse #FireUpdate #GlobalNews #DisasterAlert #HighRiseDisaster #FireInvestigation  ~HT.318~ED.194~

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00:00Hong Kong's skyline is still scarred by flames as a massive high-rise inferno continues to burn

00:18more than 20 hours after it first erupted. What began as a small fire on bamboo scaffolding

00:26has become Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in more than 60 years. At least 44 people are confirmed

00:33dead and more than 270 are reported missing. Thousands of residents have fled their homes,

00:40many now sleeping and crowded evacuation shelters. Drone footage and eyewitness video show entire

00:48towers engulfed, flames ripping through the green construction netting and leaping from building to

00:56building as thick black smoke pours into the sky. More than 760 firefighters have been deployed

01:03since Wednesday afternoon, battling flames that refused to die even as night fell and visibility dropped.

01:10I do not care for the survivors. I do not care for the survivors and the survivors.

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01:25such幸福的支援.

01:27習近平主席對於今次的大火

01:30高度重視

01:34第一時間了解火災救援及人員傷亡的情況

01:41向我轉達它對逾難人員

01:46殉職消防員的哀悼

01:50state media say president xi jinping has been briefed repeatedly on the situation expressing

01:57condolences to the families of the dead including a firefighter killed while trying to reach trapped

02:04residents on the upper floors authorities confirmed that three men have already been arrested

02:10on suspicion of manslaughter investigators believe the fire began on scaffolding

02:16attached to the exterior of a residential block before racing up the building's façade

02:22and leaping across to neighboring towers residents describe a scene of chaos and desperation

02:29that the fire is coming quickly but when you see the fire is not enough

02:40as a result, I think that was too late

02:44just looking at the fire at the airport just looking at the fire

02:45a few minutes before they would be coming for a fire

02:47this is a defining display because the fire is not caring for farmers

02:51it is so transparent that the fire will not be allowed to come up with the fire

02:58that is a very weird

02:59the fire will not be allowed at the fire

03:01the fire to the other side and the water will not be allowed to call it to the fire

03:07There is this situation

03:09For many, the fire seemed controllable at first, until it wasn't.

03:39As the hours dragged on, the fire kept spreading through the building's vertical shafts and

03:49exterior scaffolding, making it nearly impossible for crews to stop it from moving upwards.

03:55And for one family, the danger is painfully personal.

03:59As firefighters continue mopping up operations and searching for survivors, volunteers across

04:05Hong Kong are rushing to help.

04:08Wang Foote Court, where the towers still smolder, ordinary citizens have formed human chains,

04:14moving box after box of donated supplies.

04:17The most important thing is that the police have told us that the police need to be

04:22dirty.

04:23Because the police need to be dirty, so we hope that the police need to be dirty.

04:28It's very exciting that the people of Hong Kong's intelligence know that the police are

04:33afraid of it.

04:34The fire is the city's worst since 1962, when another blaze, also in a dense urban area,

04:51killed 44 people.

04:53This tragedy matches that toll and authorities fear the number could climb much higher.

04:59With more than 270 still unaccounted for, rescue teams warn that many apartments remain inaccessible,

05:06too unstable or too hot to enter safely.

05:10As dawn approaches, the flames continue to smolder.

05:15Families wait for news.

05:17Volunteers hand out water, masks, towels.

05:20And a grieving city braces itself for what rescuers may find when they finally reach the

05:25upper floors.

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