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Tuesday, November 28, 1972
ILLEGAL EXTENSIONS TO BUILDINGS CREATE FIRE HAZARDS
More than 20 senior members of the Fire Services Department
and the Public Works Department spent about two hours this (Tuesday)
afternoon examining possible fire hazards in a newly-completed multi-storey
building in Quarry Bay.
The party was led by Mr. A.E.H. Wood, Director of Fire Services;
Mr. M.K. Lane, Deputy Director; Mr. C.R.J. Donnithorne, Director of
Building Development; Mr. P.H. Rowley, Principal Government Building Surveyor;
Mr. J.C. Howlett, Chief Building Surveyor; and Mr. G. Barnes of Buildings
and Lands Branch,
They inspected hundreds of illegal extensions and balconies at
Nos. 1026-1048, King's Road.
They believed these illegal alterations were made with a complete
disregard for the safety and health of the occupants of the building.
All these illegal extensions and balconies would make fire fighting
and rescuing virtually impossible in the event of a fire, a spokesman for the
Fire Services Department said.
He said these illegal structures had come to the notice of his
department after a series of small fires had broken out at the building
over the past two weeks.
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