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HOUSE COLLAPSE

149. On Tuesday, 13th October, at 7.30 a.m., at the height of Typhoon Dot, a house collapsed at the 10 mile post Castle Peak burying one adult and 2 children. First-attending appliances were unable to get through due to road blocks caused by landslide. The fire appliance from San Hui was therefore called on by radio telephone. Personnel from the latter station rescued all 3 victims, 2 of which were certified dead on arrival at Tsuen Wan Clinic.

LANDSLIDE

150. On Tuesday, 13th October 1964, at 11.45 a.m., a landslide of some 500 tons trapped 4 members of the public in their hut situated on the hillside at Ho Tung Hill, Western District. All were rescued by the medium of stretchers and lines down the hillside and removed to hospital, suffering multiple injuries.

LANDSLIDE

151. On Tuesday, 13th October 1964, at 1.50 p.m., during Typhoon Dot, a landslide trapped 7 members of the public in two wooden huts on the hillside at Shau Kei Wan. Two women and one child were trapped under a 6 foot granite boulder and were released by Fire Service personnel using power tools. Six persons died at this incident.

LANDSLIDE

152. On Tuesday, 13th October 1964, at 2 p.m., a landslide buried 2 members of the public in the backyard of a 4-storey tenement building in the Western District. Both were extricated by Fire Service personnel, one being certified dead on arrival at the hospital.

LANDSLIDE

153. On Tuesday, 13th October 1964, at 7.50 a.m. at Ha Lung Chung, New Territories, some 50 tons of earth and rocks fell on to a wooden hut and stone house on a hillside trapping 9 persons. Five were extricated prior to the arrival of the Fire Service and two more were recovered by members of the Fire Service. After six hours work in heavy rainfall at the height of the typhoon Fire Service personnel were withdrawn. In the evening of the following day the body of the ninth person was recovered. Three persons died at this incident.

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