00:00The first public hearing on last year's deadly fire at a Hong Kong apartment complex revealed that almost all fire
00:07safety measures failed.
00:09Fire alarms failed to go off and fire hoses were inoperable, resulting in the deaths of 168 people.
00:17The blaze spread quickly through the buildings, which were undergoing renovations at the time.
00:21Bamboo scaffolding and netting used by the construction company did not meet safety standards, and some even had fraudulent certificates.
00:29The cause of the blaze has not been determined, but multiple eyewitnesses say they frequently saw workers smoking on site.
00:36One former resident who lost his wife in the fire spoke out.
00:41We hope that going forward, the truth we've been praying to uncover will come to light.
00:47Of course, today there's a lot of information we've never known before, things we never have imagined.
00:53I hope it can keep going down this path so that we can truly see what we want to find
00:58out.
01:00Several more hearings are scheduled in the next few weeks to determine the cause of the fire and to investigate
01:06safety issues.
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