Heed the blaring alarm of the HK high-rise fire


THE blaze that swept through a densely populated high-rise complex in Hong Kong on Nov 26 claimed 160 lives – and serves as a chilling reminder of the ever-present danger of fire lurking in our vertical cities.

Anyone living in a high-rise in Malaysia would have felt anxiety if not fear seeing the images and hearing the stories from the Wang Fuk Court fire.

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