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Started by Jacob, September 24, 2012, 05:27:47 PM

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citizen k

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November 26, 2025, 01:54:37 PM
BBC news

At least 36 people have been killed in a major fire engulfing apartment blocks in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong, with 279 people not accounted for

citizen k

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November 26, 2025, 01:56:33 PM

Jacob

#3212
November 26, 2025, 02:13:59 PM
That looks bad :(

DGuller

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November 26, 2025, 03:03:59 PM
Woah!  How can this happen to modern construction?  HK doesn't seem to be the place that would have negotiable enforcement of building code.

Sheilbh

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November 26, 2025, 03:09:29 PM
Very early but from what I've seen people saying it might be the bamboo scaffolding (or at least that could be how the fire spread).
Let's bomb Russia!

Razgovory

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Today at 10:16:01 AM
"So passes Mono, son of.. his father. And so pass also the days of Hong Kong... for good or evil they are ended,"
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

crazy canuck

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Today at 10:33:01 AM
Quote from: DGuller on November 26, 2025, 03:03:59 PMWoah!  How can this happen to modern construction?  HK doesn't seem to be the place that would have negotiable enforcement of building code.

Like London's fire, the problem is it modern construction
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In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

DGuller

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Today at 04:44:38 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 26, 2025, 03:09:29 PMVery early but from what I've seen people saying it might be the bamboo scaffolding (or at least that could be how the fire spread).
Yeah, I guess no internal fire resistiveness or compartmentalization will work if you wrap the whole building in kindling from the outside.
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