Highland Towers: Old memories of a newshound


Highland Tower site

A message on a pager about the collapse of a building soon turned into an overwhelming experience for this reporter as it dawned on him the magnitude of the Highland Towers tragedy.

A MESSAGE beeped on my pager that Saturday afternoon. It was from my fellow crime reporter Lam Chee Song (from a Chinese daily), saying that a building had collapsed and there were people inside it. Instinctively, I contacted the Fire and Rescue Department to verify the information.

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