South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong village fire rips through squatter huts, dozens evacuated” – below is their description.
Two men were rushed to hospital and 77 other residents were evacuated after a major fire broke out in village squatter huts in Hong Kong on January 27, 2023. Authorities were alerted at around 4am and deployed 150 firefighters and ambulance personnel to Wang Lung Tsuen in Tsuen Wan, with the blaze upgraded to a No 3 alarm about half an hour later. It took firefighters three hours to put out the blaze. Hong Kong uses a five-tier system to rate the severity of fires, with five being the most serious.
Video source: Video source: Chiu Yan-loy
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Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.