Ambulances called out nearly 50,000 times in 2022; firefighters tackle more than 800 blazes; households fined for safety breaches.
Fire Services Bureau (CB)
Forty residents evacuated from Iat Seng Building; woman rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, current condition unknown.
Second labourer injured at Galaxy Macau Phase 4 construction site in Cotai. Labour Affairs Bureau officials undertake to punish employers if safety regulations broken.
Firefighters force entry to flat of 70-something siblings; female had been dead for over ‘a month’, disabled male died ‘a while ago’. Autopsy follows.
A serious explosion occurred in a takeaway in the Inner Harbour area Tuesday morning, which injured its four employees, three of them seriously, according to the Fire Services Bureau (CB).
The Fire Services Bureau (CB) announced Thursday it extinguished 1,034 fires last year, 3.7 percent less than in the previous year, nearly half of which were caused by negligence.
