Hong Kong Fire: Wider Image Feature
INTRO
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A towering inferno
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Blaze continues, many missing
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“My feelings are still very complicated.” “Everyone’s standing up to help — not because of money, but because this is Hong Kong. So I think we shouldn’t lose hope. There’s a saying I think is really important: unpleasant things will always happen, but sadness always has an end. We can’t just give in to despair. This pain is temporary, and they will pass.”
“My feelings are still very complicated.” “Everyone’s standing up to help — not because of money, but because this is Hong Kong. So I think we shouldn’t lose hope. There’s a saying I think is really important: unpleasant things will always happen, but sadness always has an end. We can’t just give in to despair. This pain is temporary, and they will pass.”
The aftermath
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“This is my home. Look over there, the tenth floor, that’s where my home was. By the hills, that’s where my home used to be. I really want to go back home, but my home is probably gone now. They won’t let us go back, so when I look in that direction, my heart feels so heavy.”
“Our home used to be so happy. Everyone in our community lived joyfully here. The people in our community all had good lives. I really felt that our life was a happy one - going to work each day, coming home, greeting our neighbours warmly. But now, those neighbours can’t be found anymore, and we don’t even know what happened to them.”
“My family is okay - we have many relatives. My husband has many brothers and sisters who help us, and many friends care about us, so we’re fine. But we don’t know if the other neighbours have anyone looking after them. Actually, it’s not that we need a lot of sympathy from others - but what we truly wish for is just to live our normal life again. But now, that feels so difficult. When I watch TV, I don’t want to watch anymore. I don’t want to keep checking my family’s group chat, and I don’t want to look at our neighbourhoods chat group either. But I can’t help it - I just can’t stop myself. I really want to put down my mobile phone and not look at any news, not read any information. But I can’t… my heart just feels so heavy.”
“I was inside the building with my employer, and we heard the siren, so loud. So we just kind of like looked out the window. We looked at the window and we saw the firefighter was running. So it's like, I saw something flew and I smell burning. So I was like, talk to my employer, “this is fire.” I said like that, but she doesn't believe it. And so she told me to check, she told me to go out first to check. And then when I saw the building, there are two buildings has been burned with fire. So I just straight talked to my employer. I said: “You have to go down now. It's fire.” I said that way.” “Oh it was scary, I was going to cry because I saw a lot of people confused. I saw someone who's just like me (a domestic helper) with (an) elderly (person) and she doesn't bring anything. It was just her clothes and I feel like sorry for her because I still have my document, but she doesn't have anything. She's staring there, scared.”
“It’s really heartbreaking.” “Actually, this estate has a lot of elderly people. It’s considered quite an old housing estate. It’s such a pity, because it happened in the afternoon, so all the elderly were at home and couldn’t escape. That makes it even sadder.”
Public mourning, calls for accountability
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