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Inter-departmental team to submit hill fire report
An inter-departmental investigation team, jointly set up by Fire Services, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Education departments, is expected to complete a report on the Pat Sin Range hill fire in four weeks.
The team, headed by the Deputy Chief Fire Officer (New Territories), Mr Kwok Jing-keung, will look into the cause of the fire and the circumstances leading to the high number of casualties.
It will also make recommendations to prevent recurrence of similar incident.
The team had held a meeting with representatives from the Police, Civil Aid Services and Government Flying Services at the New Territories Fire Command Headquarters in Sha Tin this (Sunday) morning.
The report will be submitted to the heads of Fire Services. Agriculture and Fisheries and Education departments.
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Counselling for hill fire students and teachers offered
Five officers including education psychologists and student counsellors from the Education Department this (Sunday) morning visited Fung Yiu King Memorial Secondary School in Ma On Shan to give counselling service to some of the students, teachers and staff who might be emotionally affected by yesterday's hill fire in Pat Sin Leng.
A team of education psychologists would visit the school again tomorrow morning to offer similar service, a spokesman for the department said.
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Small group counselling would be organised if necessary. the spokesman
Meanwhile, the Director of Education. Mrs Helen CP Lai Yu, and Senior Education Officer (Sha Tin). Mr Chan in-mou, visited the injured students at the Prince of Wales Hospital again this afternoon to extend her concern to the students and their families.
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