Claim that fire alarms would not have saved lives in Tai Po blaze draws rebuke

A contractor claimed that fire alarms in Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court would not have prevented deaths during last year’s blaze, prompting a judge overseeing the public inquiry to question if the company was evading responsibility. Legal counsel for a director of fire service contractor China Status Development and Engineering stated that residents in the first building to catch fire would have still died even with functional alarms.