Wang Fuk Court's fire services contractor made possible errors on annual inspection checklist

發佈日期: 2026-03-31 20:35

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Wang Fuk Court's fire services contractor said they might have made errors on the checklist of the estate's annual fire services installation inspection. The statement was made at the sixth independent committee's hearing on the Tai Po fire.

The public hearing on the Wang Fuk Court fire resumed at Central City Gallery on Tuesday morning. Lee Shu-wun, senior counsel of the independent committee, continued to question Chung Kit-man, the director of Victory Fire Engineering, the fire safety contractor of Wang Fuk Court.

When asked about the two water tank issues flagged in the annual fire services installation inspection checklist of Wang Fuk Court, such problems were not mentioned in the official certificate filed with the Fire Services Department.

Chung said the company might have marked it wrong on the checklist.

The barrister asked Chung why he would request workers to continue with the maintenance work when he knew they had not carried out testing on some fire safety equipment because of the shutdown system.

Chung said the repair work "improves" the situation as a whole.

Lee asked Chung if he thought he was "doing more good than harm," and the director agreed.

Lok Sin-ying, a clerk at Wang Fuk Court and a witness from the ISS EastPoint, the property manager of the estate, testified in the afternoon hearing.

The hearing shows that Lok had issued a job order to two workers to help Prestige Construction and Engineering, the estate's contractor, empty a water tank in 2025.

In a written submission of Law Kwok-shui, one of the workers, said he had asked Lok about the matter because he knew it had to be handled by a registered fire services contractor.

He said Lok asked him to follow the request of Prestige.

But Lok said she had no memory of such a conversation and wasn't sure why Law would say something like that.

The hearing is adjourned until Wednesday, and Lok will continue to testify before her other ISS colleagues do so.