some 12 hours after the original call and failing to locate the second victim, operations were abandoned till daylight. Next day after Buildings Ordinance Office shoring contractors had secured all dangerous walls and buildings in the area the body of one victim was extricated. Four days later the body of the second victim was recovered and finally on the evening of the fourth day yet a third.
144. The work performed by both Fire Service personnel and members of the Buildings Ordinance Office was the most outstanding of an outstanding year in the matter of operations at house collapses. Courage, endurance and stubbornness in the face of most incredible difficulties have in Hong Kong seldom been equalled. A photograph of one aspect of this operation is reproduced in this report.
PASSENGER VEHICLE
145. On Friday, 2nd October 1964, at 6.45 p.m., the Fire Service was called to an incident at Castle Peak where a 9 passenger vehicle had run off the road dropping on to a beach 150 feet below. 8 persons were extricated by Police and Fire Service personnel and removed to hospital suffering multiple injuries. One passenger died from the latter.
LANDSLIDE
146. On Tuesday, 13th October, at 3 a.m., during Typhoon Dot with winds at gale force a landslide occurred on the island of Peng Chau, trapping 7 occupants of a wooden hut. All were rescued (one in a seriously injured condition) by Fire Service personnel and removed to the Peng Chau health clinic.
147. On Tuesday, 13th October 1964, at 5.30 a.m., during the height of Typhoon Dot a landslide buried 3 people in their wooden hut at Shau Kei Wan. All were rescued by Fire Service personnel with minor injuries. The first attending appliances to this incident were flooded by torrential rain and a second response had to be made.
BUILDING COLLAPSE
148. In the early hours of the morning on Tuesday, 13th October 1964, during heavy rainfall, a brick building at Sha Tau Kok collapsed burying three occupants; one was recovered immediately on arrival of the Police and the remaining two by the Fire Service. The latter were certified dead on arrival at Sheung Shui Clinic.
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