CB requests fire maintenance records

The Fire Services Bureau (CB) has requested the property management and the fire services installation contractor of Edifício Jardim Kong Fok Cheong to submit its fire maintenance records.
According to reports, the bureau has requested for the two parties to submit maintenance records of the building’s fire services installations within 10 days, following the fire that broke out on the sixth floor of the building on Sunday last week.
It took the CB about three hours to put out the fire because the building’s fire system was out of water.
The CB was required to pump water from its trucks to facilitate the operation as the water pressure from the residential building’s fire service installations were not strong enough.
The fire caused some 150 people to evacuate the building.
The bureau deployed 19 fire engines and 110 fire fighters to the scene.
Drones were deployed for the first time as auxiliary support and were used to assist the Fire Services to evaluate the situation from a three-dimensional perspective.
Meanwhile, the Social Welfare Bureau is already providing assistance including temporary accommodation for the fire victims, as well as emotional support and counseling.