Hong Kong auditor takes aim at fire services over delayed safety hazard prosecutions

Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department has yet to launch prosecutions in 34 cases involving mini-storage premises that failed to comply with safety hazard orders, including sites first inspected as far back as 2016, the Audit Commission has said.The commission also revealed on Wednesday that none of the 249 industrial buildings required to improve fire safety measures in their common parts had complied with the orders issued under a law that took effect in 2020.Fire safety at industrial buildings came under public scrutiny after a blaze in Ngau Tau Kok took 108 hours to tame and killed two firefighters in June 2016, prompting authorities to inspect mini-storage facilities across the city.