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With hundreds of thousands of people living in overcrowded tenements and squatter areas, fire is an ever-present hazard in Hong Kong. The dramatic picture above was taken when a five-storey tenement building caught fire in Queen's Road West on Hong Kong Island. Fourteen occupants were rescued by means of jumping sheets, escapes and turntable ladders.
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