Hill fire rages for hours in Hong Kong’s Pat Sin Leng mountain range

A huge hill fire raged for hours in the Pat Sin Leng mountain range in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Monday evening, sending thick smoke into the sky and at one point stretching more than 80 metres. Police said they received multiple reports of a hill fire near the Green Cove luxury residential estate along Ting Kok Road at around 7.50pm on Monday. By 10pm, the blaze had escalated into three lines each measuring 45 metres. They had combined and formed a single fire line stretching a distance...