GCB Court

Sunday 05 February 2006, 13:25 pm....
Mrs. Angeline Huang-Ong ( GCB Court Management Corporation's Honorary
Secretary ) gets off the lifts on the 21st floor . She notices thick smoke
coming from the Refuse Room next to lifts number 1 & 2. She immediately instructed her
maid to get a pail of water and succeeded in putting out the fire. If the fire had continued
for a while longer , the Refuse Room door would have been burned through and the fire
could have spread throughout the building.

On Monday 02 January 2006 ( a Public Holiday ) a similar fire occurred in the same
Refuse Room at about the same time ( between 13:00pm and 13:30pm). Are these
fires coincidental or acts of sabotage?

The Refuse Room on the 21st Floor . This is the 2nd time that a fire
broke out in this refuse room. The 1st fire occurred on 02 January 2006
( less than 5 weeks ago ). In both incidents prompt actions by the residents
prevented the fire from spreading. Are these fires caused by thoughtless,
careless and irrespondsible residents or by arsonists? A police report was made
on 05 February 2006 by the building management personnel. 

The refuse room after the fire was put out .

The plastic garbage bin and the refuse that caught fire.

Our brand new plastic garbage bin destroyed in the fire.
Note that the interior shows very little smoke damage, implying that the
fire started outside the bin. 

Prompt action in putting out the fire prevented these inflammable materials from
burning through the refuse room door and spreading throughout our building. 

The light switch and its wiring will have to be checked and replaced. 

The damage to the light fittings.