‘Helplessness more suffocating than the smoke’: Hong Kong fire survivor’s ordeal

William Li, 40, is one of the survivors of Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy. The deadliest inferno in decades set seven blocks in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex ablaze, claiming at least 128 lives as of Friday. Li was rescued from Wang Cheong House – the block that first caught fire – on Wednesday evening. Here is a translation of his personal account, which was first put up on his Facebook account. On the day of the incident, I was resting at home. When I was informed of the fire through...