"A massive fire broke out around 3pm at Wang Fuk Court, a densely packed housing estate in Tai Po, and I arrived about an hour later. By then, the flames were raging across multiple blocks, with thick black smoke. Unsafe bamboo scaffolding and foam may have led to what became Hong Kong's worst fire in decades. Residents were streaming out in panic, while emergency crews fought a losing battle against the inferno spreading from one tower to the next."
"Outside the cordon line, I saw crowds of nearby residents and this 71-year-old man, Mr Wong. He was pacing near the barrier, his face crumpled in agony. This photo captures his pure desperation, shouting that his wife was trapped in the blaze, yelling the apartment number to police officers in the hope they could reach her. He had last spoken to her in a phone call when the fire broke out."
"Three days after the fire, while shooting near the site again, I spotted him across the road. I reintroduced myself as the photographer, and he said he'd seen my photo everywhere, then pointed to his son behind him. His son said something that struck me deeply: I thought the home was no more, but home is still here. His mother had left them, the apartment was ash, but his father, his sister and the rest of his family were together."
A massive fire erupted around 3pm at Wang Fuk Court, a densely packed housing estate in Tai Po. Flames spread across multiple blocks, fueled possibly by unsafe bamboo scaffolding and foam, producing thick black smoke. Residents fled in panic as emergency crews struggled to contain the blaze that jumped between towers. A 71-year-old man frantically searched for his trapped wife, later learning his family remained together despite their apartment being ash. In Antarctica's Neko Harbour, more than 20 humpback whales swam among ice, some sleeping and some feeding on krill. Small growlers, chunks of calved ice, surrounded the whales during the expedition.
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