香港消防处宣布成立一个新的指导委员会，以评估其对大型火灾事件的应对策略，此举是在大埔王福苑大火后采取的措施。该火灾是香港数十年内最致命的火灾，造成168人死亡，并导致约5000名居民流离失所。
香港消防处处长杨云健周二表示，其副手、行动副处长陈德明将领导一个新的指导委员会，对消防策略进行评估。该委员会将审查大型火灾事件的行动效能，并探讨改进方法。
杨云健在一次关于过去一年部门工作的新闻发布会上说：“[指导委员会将]评估这些巨型火灾事件的行动效能以及如何改进。”委员会还将审查先进工具的使用、人员部署以及消防员的防护装备。
这场大火席卷了大埔王福苑八座住宅楼中的七座，造成168人死亡，约5000名居民流离失所。一名消防员死亡，另外12名消防员在79名受伤者中。
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Residents of Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court have returned to the fire-ravaged ruins in recent days, climbing stairs to retrieve jewellery, cash, photo albums and keepsakes before bidding farewell to their homes. The fire services chief acknowledged at a hearing that departments need better communication while insisting on clear divisions of responsibility. The blaze killed 168 people.
The independent committee probing the deadly Wang Fuk Court fire in Tai Po held its first evidential session, uncovering six human factors behind the near-total failure of fire safety measures. Leading counsel Victor Dawes SC highlighted denials of responsibility by the Labour Department, Fire Services Department, and Housing Bureau's Independent Checking Unit for the HK$336 million project. Details also emerged on the death of firefighter Ho Wai-ho amid the November inferno that killed 168.
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An independent committee probing last year’s Wang Fuk Court fire in Tai Po heard that Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department declined to issue an emergency alert due to fears of confusion and the system’s one-hour activation time. The blaze killed 168 people, Hong Kong’s deadliest since 1948. Officers testified on responsibilities and response failures.
An inquiry heard that a fire services company conducted no on-site checks and merely rubber-stamped 85 shutdown notices for a housing estate's hose reel system before Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in decades. A Fire Services Department official testified that another contractor failed to alert authorities after finding the estate's fire water tanks drained and power switches for hose reels and alarms turned off. The revelations emerged at the ninth hearing into the November fire in Tai Po that killed 168 people.
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In the latest session of Hong Kong's inquiry into the deadly Wang Fuk Court fire—which killed 168 and displaced nearly 5,000—Urban Renewal Authority officials admitted their tendering system cannot prevent market manipulation or bid-rigging in estate renovations, citing limited resources and a policy of non-interference in homeowners' choices.