{"id":38182,"date":"2025-09-23T06:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38182\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:50:04","slug":"firefighters-battling-fire-raging-for-7-hours-at-hong-kong-recycling-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38182\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battling fire raging for 7 hours at Hong Kong recycling site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Firefighters have been battling a blaze at a recycling site in Hong Kong\u2019s Tsing Yi for about seven hours since it broke out, two days after another fire erupted near the same spot.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Fire Services Department was alerted at 4.12am on Tuesday that a fire had broken out at a recycling site at the junction of Tsing Sheung Road and Hong Wan Road in Tsing Yi in the New Territories.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The No 1 alarm fire was 50m (164 feet) long and 50m wide, the department said. It sent 11 fire engines, two fire boats and an ambulance to the scene.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The firefighting operation was still under way as of 11am, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The blaze consumed metal and electronic waste, but no one was injured or evacuated, it added. The cause of the fire had yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smoke rises from the site of the fire at the Tsing Yi recycling site near Stonecutters Bridge. Photo: Sun Yeung\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0da9f7f6-68d5-4f1c-9c50-d2a584ce1dc8_24109d8e.jpg\" title=\"Smoke rises from the site of the fire at the Tsing Yi recycling site near Stonecutters Bridge. Photo: Sun Yeung\"\/>Smoke rises from the site of the fire at the Tsing Yi recycling site near Stonecutters Bridge. Photo: Sun Yeung<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Online footage and photos showed flames and smoke rising from the site. Thick smoke could also be seen from Hong Kong Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have been battling a blaze at a recycling site in Hong Kong\u2019s Tsing Yi for about seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11428,19734,273,34985,34986,34987,34981,34980,34988,34982,1614,34989,111,139,69,34983,147,3948,34984,14578],"class_list":["post-38182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ambulance","tag-electronic-waste","tag-environment","tag-fire-boats","tag-fire-engines","tag-fire-services-department","tag-flames","tag-hong-kong-island","tag-hong-kongs-tsing-yi","tag-hong-wan-road","tag-metal","tag-new-territories","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recycling-site","tag-science","tag-smoke","tag-tsing-sheung-road","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}