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Claim that fire alarms would not have saved lives in Tai Po blaze draws rebuke

Residents of Hong Kongโ€™s blaze-ravaged Wang Fuk Court would still have died even if the housing estateโ€™s fire alarms had been working during last yearโ€™s inferno, a contractor has suggested, prompting the judge overseeing a public inquiry into the disaster to question whether he was attempting to evade responsibility. Legal counsel for a director of fire service contractor China Status Development and Engineering said on Wednesday that residents living in the first building to catch fire on...