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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1990
HE ADDED THAT APPROPRIATE PUBLICITY WOULD DECISION HAD BEEN TAKEN ON THESE PROPOSALS.
ONCE BE ARRANGED
A
TIN ESTATE IN WHICH IN VIEW OF A RECENT INCIDENT AT LAM
AN AFTER HACKING ANOTHER ELDERLY ELDERLY PERSON JUMPED TO HIS DEATH
THE PERSON WITH WHOM HE SHARED THE SAME HOUSING UNIT, MR HO ASKED FOR
FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS AND NUMBER OF SIMILAR CASES OF HOMICIDE
THE REVIEW
CURRENT POLICY OF WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT WOULD
PUBLIC THAT THE NUMBER HOUSING ALLOCATION FOR THE ELDERLY, BEARING IN MIND OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN OF THE POPULATION WAS ON THE INCREASE.
REFERRED ACCORDING TO MR TSAO, APART FROM THE INCIDENT MR HO'S QUESTION, THERE WAS ONLY ONE SIMILAR CASE OF HOMICIDE ELDERLY PERSONS SHARING PUBLIC PAST THREE YEARS INVOLVING ACCOMMODATION.
TO IN IN THE HOUSING
FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS TO TUNNEL OPERATIONS OUTLINED
* * * * *
*
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOLLOWING A REVIEW
LAST MONTH,
TOLD THE
THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT HAS MADE INITIAL IMPROVEMENTS TO GOVERNMENT TUNNEL OPERATIONS CONDUCTED AFTER THE SERIOUS FIRE IN THE LION ROCK TUNNEL THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
LEUNG,
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON SELINA CHOW, MR LEUNG
THESE RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDED:
* SHORTENING THE RESPONSE TIME STILL FURTHER;
SAID
REVIEWING THE FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT IN GOVERNMENT TUNNELS;
*
AND
*
INTENSIFYING FIGHTING.
THE TRAINING
OF TUNNEL
STAFF
IN FIRE
THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT HAD ALSO SET UP SEVERAL WORKING GROUPS TO PURSUE THESE AND OTHER POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS, HE SAID.
AND AN SERIOUS EVER ARMY VEHICLE
MR LEUNG SAID THE FIRE ON DECEMBER 13, INVOLVING A VAN ARMY RECOVERY VEHICLE WHICH WAS TOWING IT, WAS THE MOST TO OCCUR IN THE TUNNEL SINCE IT OPENED IN 1967, AND THE WAS ONE OF THE HEAVIEST VEHICLES EVER TO HAVE BROKEN DOWN THERE.
AS SUCH, IT PUT
THE EXISTING
EMERGENCY
ΤΟ PROCEDURES
TEST
UNDER THE MOST SERIOUS CONDITIONS.
AN IMMEDIATE REVIEW
THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT CONDUCTED WITH ALL DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED AND RECOMMENDED A NUMBER OF MEASURES.
/MR LEUNG...................