Domestic helpers recount Hong Kong tower inferno, work in limbo

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The Indonesian consulate office in Hong Kong said at least 100 Indonesians, domestic helpers or migrant workers were living and working in the Tai Po area where the Wang Fuk Court housing complex fire happened.  Some of them who even lived in the complex recalled how they responded to the emergency saying that their employment is now in a limbo.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Thank you very much.

00:30I was inside the building with my employer and we heard the siren so loud so we just

00:40kind of like look out the window.

00:42We looked at the window and we saw the firefighter was running so it's like I saw something

00:48flew and I smell burning.

00:50She told me to go out first to check and then when I saw the building, the two buildings

00:56has been burned with fire so I just straight talked to my employer, I said you have to

01:04go down now, it's fire.

01:05I saw a lot of people confused, I saw someone who's just like me with elderly and she doesn't

01:12bring anything, it was just her clothes and I feel like sorry for her because I still

01:17have my document but she doesn't have anything, she's staring there scared.

01:23Right now I feel so grateful because I am safe but I was considering about the friends

01:28I know.

01:29For those who will be terminated as a result of this, just like the COVID, you know, the COVID

01:36in 2022 where many were terminated so hopefully the employer should also sympathize that it's

01:42a double yummy.

01:43If they get terminated and they are traumatized by this incident, it's a double yummy for them.

01:51I'm here with my colleagues from the Consular General because we know that based on our

01:56data there are at least 100 Indonesian domestic helpers or migrant workers living and working

02:05in this area and we heard some of them living in the buildings that fired two days ago.

02:15reminders of people from the side of sitting down.

02:18I think people are going to do it.

02:22We have to be a public hospital in the country

02:24in the country of good protection school.

02:28In fact, no matter what the hell is lying,

02:29it doesn't mean that they can die.

02:32In fact, people have bad feelings,

02:34what happens when they consume a lot of these sins.

02:39There is going to be a problem that you'd like to run.

02:43There's a lot of problems.

02:45There isn't a problem.

02:47They started to be a bit of a problem

02:49They have seen the images of the body

02:53The building was just a bit of a problem

02:55It was just a bit of a problem

02:57It was just a bit of a problem

02:59It was not a problem

03:01It was a problem

03:03It was a problem

03:05But I hope it was a problem

03:07We would have to get it

03:09We would have to be more comfortable

03:11If not, it would be very painful

03:15Hey, I'm so sorry

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