The Audit Commission reported that Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department has failed to prosecute 34 cases involving unsafe mini-storage units. Furthermore, nearly all required industrial buildings have failed to comply with mandated fire safety improvements.

Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department has yet to launch prosecutions in 34 cases involving mini-storage premises that failed to comply with safety hazard orders, including sites first inspected as far back as 2016, the Audit Commission has said. The commission also revealed on Wednesday that none of the 249 industrial buildings required to improve fire safety measures in their common parts had complied with the orders issued under a law that took effect in 2020. Fire safety at industrial...