WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1986
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FIRE OFFICERS COMMENDED
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TWO FIRE STATION OFFICERS WERE TODAY (WEDNESDAY) COMMENDED FOR RESCUING 25 PEOPLE INCLUDING A TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY IN A PRE-WAR BUILDING DURING A NO. ALARM FIRE IN CHEUNG SHA WAN LAST MONTH.
THE CHIEF FIRE OFFICER OF KOWLOON COMMAND, MR M. KINGDOM, PRESENTED HIS COMMENDATIONS TO STATION OFFICERS MR CHAN YIU-MING 26, AND MR YAU CHI-ON, 24, FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP
24, FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP, RESOURCEFULNESS
AND DEVOTION TO DUTY UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES.
SENIOR FIREMAN CHAN CHI-KWONG, 35, WAS GIVEN SPECIAL MERITS FOR HIS PROMPT AND SKILFUL MOBILISATION OF OPERATIONAL SUPPORT DURING THE FIRE-FIGHTING.
THE FIRE BROKE OUT IN A FOUR-STOREY TENEMENT BUILDING AT 342-344 UN CHAU STREET AT ABOUT 1.20 AM ON JANUARY 14 AND WAS
AT THAT TIME THE UPGRADED TO NO. 3 ALARM SEVERAL MINUTES LATER. STAIRCASE WAS ABLAZE AND THE FRONT PORTION OF THE BUILDING HEAVILY SMOKE-LOGGED.
THE TWO OFFICERS IMMEDIATELY CARRIED OUT THE RESCUE AT THE NARROW REAR LANE WITH THE USE OF EXTENSION LADDERS AS THE LANE WAS NOT WIDE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE A LARGE TURNTABLE LADDER.
THEY HAD TO CLEAR THROUGH OBSTRUCTIONS AND TORE DOWN AWNINGS WHEN EFFECTING THE RESCUE OF THE RESIDENTS WHO WERE TRAPPED AT THE REAR PORTIONS OF THE UPPER FLOORS.
LUNAR NEW YEAR LIGHTINGS
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A TOTAL OF SIX LOCATIONS IN KWAI CHUNG AND TSING YI WILL BE DECORATED WITH LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVE LIGHTS FROM TOMORROW (THURSDAY) UNTIL FEBRUARY 24 TO CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF THE TIGER.
FUNDED BY THE KWAI CHUNG AND TSING YI DISTRICT BOARD AT A COST OF $230 500, THE LIGHTINGS WILL BE PUT UP AT THE CASTLE PEAK ROAD/KWAI CHUNG ROUNDABOUT, TSING YI BRIDGE ROUNDABOUT, THREE FOOTBRIDGES ACROSS KWAI CHUNG ROAD, AND THE FOOTBRIDGE ACROSS CASTLE PEAK ROAD NEAR WO YI HOP ROAD.
THE BIGGEST