So a whole block of residential towers are on fire - believed to be started from bamboo scaffolding. 13 confirmed dead so far, but that number will unfortunately go up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2emg1kj1klt

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/hong-kong-tai-po-buildings-fire-11-26-25

Surreal.

Whoa!!!

What a nightmare. The fire just climbing, climbing, climbing.

36 confirmed dead, another 279 unaccounted for...

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More than 700 firefighters are at the scene trying to tackle the blaze at Wang *** Court - which houses about 4,600 residents

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Bat and pangolin grease fire gone out of control? We knew this would happened as the Chinese established their rule in an increasingly hardline manner.

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More than 700 firefighters are at the scene trying to tackle the blaze at Wang *** Court - which houses about 4,600 residents

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I assume the censored word was "Chung"

No. Hit reply to it and you will see it.

Looks like California all over again...

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An actual real Chinese fire drill wpuld have come in handy.

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Omg lol

Looks like several chimney charcoal starters side by side. Anyone not out early are certainly goners.

Not to hijack but have you ever seen those guys build and use scaffolding made of bamboo?! Amazing! They can climb like a ring-tailed lemur!

Wow thats awful

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Looks like California all over again...

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The difference being if this is arson, the culprit won't skate lightly or survive.

But it looks accidental from what hearing.

If there a place showing this live? you would think they'd go the way of the twin towers.

Horrible

Perhaps, we can hope, that various tsunami and earthquake protections and strengthening both between them make some of them more sturdy. This can be simply horrendous...

Currently 44 dead and 300 missing. I would imagine the death toll going into the hundreds. I hope I am wrong.




Could you imagine if it happened here before it was torn down? Population density was 1.3 million per square mile!! Some fascinating documentaries about this place

Kowloon Walled City



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

Ive always been curious about this place since it was a COD map...do you have a particular doc that you recommend?

BBC has pretty good coverage.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxe9r7wjgro

Also several mentions of it being similar to Grenfell Towers in the UK. Highly combustible materials on exterior.

Never heard of this. That is wild.

MouthBQ98 said:

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An actual real Chinese fire drill wpuld have come in handy.

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I feel terrible for these people and this situation.




But . . . that was funny.

MouthBQ98 said:

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An actual real Chinese fire drill wpuld have come in handy.

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I have been in an actual Chinese Fire Drill and it was very well organized and orderly.

I don't remember the documentary name, Simon Whistler seems to always be tied to good stuff , I bet his link and an oveerall link to a ton of other links. You could live there your whole life and neer leave.


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kowloon+walled+city

I don't remember the documentary name, Simon Whistler seems to always be tied to go stuff , I bet his link and an oveerall link to a ton of other links. You could live there your whole life and neer leave. It kind of has a Blade Runner feel. Kind of a " No go zone " for the HK police. Just think of how many other amazing things are out there that we have no idea about, that is common knowledge to the local/counry population !!


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kowloon+walled+city

TyHolden said:

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Looks like California all over again...

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Currently 65 confirmed dead, 300+ missing. It's gonna be very bad.
Some of the videos are incredible, the towers look like roman candles spewing flames hundreds of feet into the sky.

Undoubtedly most if not all the people trapped on the upper floors are going to be dead. Very tragic.

I'm sure it is just coincidence these only burned down after the communists forcefully took over.

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If there a place showing this live? you would think they'd go the way of the twin towers.

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There were some videos running around the Internet last night and they were so fantastic that I couldn't decide if it was real or AI.

If real - super scary

Article out of Singapore - Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/live-hong-kong-buildings-fire-deaths

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At least 65 people have been reported dead, including one firefighter and two Indonesian helpers, with hundreds more still missing as of Thursday afternoon.

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• The city's development bureau is looking to gradually replace bamboo scaffolding with metal and up to 100 contractors have seven days to submit documents proving the use of fire-******ant materials.
• Hong Kong's anti-corruption body said on Thursday that it launched a probe into renovation work at the housing complex that caught fire.
• The source of the fire is under probe, but investigators are pointing to the installation of flammable materials on the buildings as a potential factor.

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TyHolden said:

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If there a place showing this live? you would think they'd go the way of the twin towers.

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There were some videos running around the Internet last night and they were so fantastic that I couldn't decide if it was real or AI.

If real - super scary

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Not to minimize it, but at least its not what looked like at first. A whole line of skyscrapers just burning one after another. Its a cluster group of buildings, standing entirely separate and tall in open sky without others around them. But most of the cluster (five?) is indeed on fire. It looks more like an apartment version of the cluster of business office towers you see at some intersections here. Horrifying, but probably also isolated.

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Article out of Singapore - Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/live-hong-kong-buildings-fire-deaths

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At least 65 people have been reported dead, including one firefighter and two Indonesian helpers, with hundreds more still missing as of Thursday afternoon.

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• The city's development bureau is looking to gradually replace bamboo scaffolding with metal and up to 100 contractors have seven days to submit documents proving the use of fire-******ant materials.
• Hong Kong's anti-corruption body said on Thursday that it launched a probe into renovation work at the housing complex that caught fire.
• The source of the fire is under probe, but investigators are pointing to the installation of flammable materials on the buildings as a potential factor.

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We always wait until after the tragedy to fix what we should've fixed in the first place. Human nature.