The deadly fire that engulfed several high-rise apartment towers in Hong Kong on Wednesday had strong similarities to the blaze that broke out at Grenfell Tower in London in 2017, and in both cases, those factors made it difficult for firefighters, an official at a fire engineering consulting firm said on Wednesday.
In the Grenfell Tower blaze, said Jonathan Barnett, managing director of Basic Expert, the consulting firm, a combustible element called cladding that ran up the outside of the 24-story bui
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