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Friday, September 17, 2010

14th September 2010




Sunny day. Around 6pm on that day, I usually will go back part of office to breathe some fresh air few times in a day (sometime office is quite cigarettes smell). This time I when I go out there I can smell a lot of smoke comes from beside office and I also saw many people gather at down there, some wearing face mask as well. At that time I am just shut down my laptop and preparing to back home and in just a second the fire alarm rang. All employee of my company (actually left Anson, Ms Lee, and me only) quickly run down of the office to gather at a safe place. Actually the smoke is come from 3rd floor and my office is 2nd floor so we are not so scared at that time. At that time we just saw a lot of smoke come out from windows and did not saw any fire from outside. So in my opinion it is just moderate case or even small case for those who have fire experience. After 10 minutes, the first fire brigade comes to put down the fire. Unfortunately the water from main tap just last for 10 to 15 minutes only. Sweat -.-|||….maybe the main water tap is lack of maintenance. However more and more fire brigades come here to put down the fire, this show the efficiency of fire dept or too many people call the fire dept at the same time, who knows. From this incident, I had saw many poorness of this office area, first, the fire/smoke detector alarm is not so sensitive cause many of us come out late from office. Second is the road curb design at the entrance of parking is not so smooth especially when big vehicle like fire brigade or lorry is hard to come inside in case of emergency case. Third is the water pressure of the main water tap is not stable. If this is a big fire, sure my office will get burn out in a short time. After I watch the fireman for almost 2 hrs, the smoke still come out from the building and I don’t want to wait anymore cause the time is late so my colleague and I quickly go back office to take the valuable things back home. In the end the fireman still struggle with little of water to put down the smoke.

The Fire Brigade took more than 30 min to enter this office premise



The water from the main pipe just last for 15 min only....-.-||
The fireman had to wear full PPE is rush to the fire scene since is lack of water..

After more than 2 hours, the smoke still coming out and the fireman still shooting water to the office


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