At 5am on February 16, Wu Caiyun thought she was having a horrible nightmare when her 12-year-old daughter shook her awake, screaming at the top of her lungs: “Mum, there’s a fire!”
After having been suddenly woken up mid-sleep, nothing seemed to make sense to Wu at first. But as she opened the front door, reality sank in quickly. Her minuscule 130 sq ft flat was engulfed by choking black smoke that continued to pour in.
The smoke was coming from a fire, caused by a carelessly...
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