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Claim that fire alarms would not have saved lives in Tai Po blaze draws rebuke

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Claim that fire alarms would not have saved lives in Tai Po blaze draws rebuke
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Residents of Hong Kong’s blaze-ravaged Wang Fuk Court would still have died even if the housing estate’s fire alarms had been working during last year’s inferno, a contractor has suggested, prompting the judge overseeing a public inquiry into the disaster to question whether he was attempting to evade responsibility.
Legal counsel for a director of fire service contractor China Status Development and Engineering said on Wednesday that residents living in the first building to catch fire on...

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