In a statement yesterday, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) announced the findings of an investigation into the failure of the functioning of the fire hydrant system of the Kong Fok Cheong Garden residential estate in Areia Preta – which was hit by a huge blaze earlier this month, according to which the system’s insufficient water pressure during the fire-fighting operation on the day of the fire – October 20 – was due to various kinds of damage in the system.
It took firefighters a long time to get the major fire under control. The bureau said in a statement the next day after the blaze that the water pressure of the building’s fire hydrant system had been confirmed to have been insufficient for the fire-fighting operation.
Yesterday’s statement said that officers of the bureau went to the building the next day after the fire, where they carried out an on-site test of its fire hydrant system, together with staff members of the building’s management company. There they confirmed that “the fire hose can discharge water normally”. Therefore, yesterday’s statement said, the bureau concluded at that time that there was water in the building’s fire hydrant system but the water pressure was insufficient to battle the blaze.
