Fire breaks out at Hong Kong’s Shek Kwu Chau waste-to-energy plant
A fire broke out on Monday at Hong Kong’s waste-to-energy incinerator on an artificial island off Shek Kwu Chau. The blaze started at 12.43pm at the Integrated Waste Management Facilities Phase I and was upgraded to a No 3 alarm at 1.24pm, the Fire Services Department said. A No 3 alarm is the third of five levels, with five the most severe. Higher alarm levels trigger the deployment of more…
A fire erupted on Monday at Hong Kong’s waste-to-energy incinerator situated on an artificial island off Shek Kwu Chau. The flames ignited at 12:43pm at the Integrated Waste Management Facilities Phase I and were escalated to a No 3 alarm at 1:24pm, according to the Fire Services Department. A No 3 alarm indicates the third of five severity levels, with five being the most critical.
In response, firefighters deployed two water jets and two breathing apparatus teams to combat the inferno. Fortunately, there have been no reported casualties thus far. The facility, formally known as I·PARK1, is Hong Kong’s inaugural large-scale waste-to-energy plant. Strategically positioned on a roughly 12-hectare artificial island in the city’s southwestern waters, it is engineered to process up to 3,000 tonnes of waste daily.
The plant, which cost HK$31.3 billion (US$4 billion) and took over seven years to construct, commenced operations in December of the previous year as part of the government’s strategy to diminish dependence on landfills by 2035.
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