{"id":154016,"date":"2025-11-28T00:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=154016"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:42:54","slug":"experts-urge-laws-to-mandate-fire-proof-materials-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=154016","title":{"rendered":"Experts urge laws to mandate fire-proof materials&#8217; use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1833559_3_M_20251127154233.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Hong Kong construction industry leaders on Thursday called on authorities to draw up legislation to make the use of fire-proof materials mandatory for construction and renovation work.<\/p>\n<p>The calls came as the death toll for the ongoing fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po rose to 55 since it broke out yesterday afternoon with flames ripping through bamboo scaffolding on seven out of eight residential blocks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1833559-20251127.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong construction industry leaders on Thursday cal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}