An elderly man was pulled unconscious from a flat after a fire broke out in a residential building in Hong Kong’s Western district on Monday night, with about 60 residents evacuating the premises.
Police received a report at 8.57pm that flames had erupted in a flat in Hang Fai Building on Pok Fu Lam Road in Sai Ying Pun.
Firefighters deployed a water jet and a breathing apparatus team to tackle the fire, which was extinguished at 9.54pm.
A man in his 70s was found unconscious and was rushed to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam.