A fire that ripped through a Hong Kong flat yesterday morning has been blamed on a portable mobile phone charger.
And who in Hong Kong doesn’t have one (or three) of those?
Fire fighters were called to Tsui Xheung House at Tsui Ping North Estate, Kwun Tong, at around 6:43am Monday morning after neighbours reported seeing smoke rising from the 26th floor flat.
A 38-year-old woman was sent to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation, while around 40 other residents were evacuated.
It took the fire crew around an hour to quell the blaze, which blackened the inside and outside of the flat and sent plumes of thick smoke into the building’s corridors. A air conditioning unit outside the apartment also caught fire and crashed to the ground.
According to Ming Pao (as translated by the HKFP), initial investigations show that the fire may have been started by a portable mobile phone charger that overheated and short-circuited.
Earlier this year there were reports of women’s handbags exploding on the MTR due to overheating portable chargers.
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