{"id":318188,"date":"2025-11-28T07:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318188\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:14:12","slug":"firefighting-ends-at-site-of-huge-hong-kong-blaze-as-death-toll-soars-to-94-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318188\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting ends at site of huge Hong Kong blaze as death toll soars to 94 &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/bbc-verify.bac8ff232a.svg\" alt=\"BBC Verify\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>What verified footage tells us about how the fire unfoldedpublished at 03:06 GMT<\/p>\n<p>03:06 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Video shows speed fire spreads in Hong Kong tower block<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Yi Ma and Emma Pengelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have been looking at social media footage, witness<br \/>\naccounts and official statements to build a timeline of the deadly Hong Kong<br \/>\ntower block fires. Here\u2019s what we know so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verified footage posted on the social platform Threads, captured<br \/>\nthe first visible signs of fire at the easternmost block of Wang Fuk Court<br \/>\nyesterday. The user who uploaded the video said they noticed the flames at<br \/>\n14:51 local time (06:51 GMT). This aligns with the Hong Kong Fire<br \/>\nServices Department (HKFSD) statement, which reported receiving its first<br \/>\nalert at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Within 10 minutes, a witness says they spot the first firefighters<br \/>\narriving as flames spread rapidly from the lower floors to several levels<br \/>\nabove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another video, which was filmed from a different angle, shows the<br \/>\nfire then spread to the top of the block of flats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By 16:10 a verified clip emerged on social media showing that<br \/>\nthe fire had spread to at least two other towers, producing<br \/>\nthick smoke plumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 16:41 authorities confirmed the first fatality, a firefighter working to battle the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HKFSD raised the incident to a Level 5 alarm, the highest danger classification in the city, at 18:22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 24 hours after the fire began, new videos from the city shows that smoke and some fires remain active in parts of the complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee says the fire at all seven buildings is now \u201cbasically under control\u201d but rescue efforts are still ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile the death toll has risen to 75 people, local media cite the Hong Kong fire department as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What verified footage tells us about how the fire unfoldedpublished at 03:06 GMT 03:06 GMT Media caption, Video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-318188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}