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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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