烟雾、敲门声，以及一场从香港火灾中逃生的搏斗

Smoke, a knock on the door and a battle to escape the Hong Kong fire.

烟雾、敲门声，以及一场从香港火灾中逃生的搏斗

11月26日下午，香港新界大埔宏福苑多栋住宅楼发生火灾，造成重大人员伤亡。至今，事故已增至44人遇难。高层建筑一旦失火，往往火势蔓延迅猛，救援和人员疏散十分困难，危险就在瞬息之间。这场大火是怎么烧起来的？火灾发生时，要想跑赢时间，我们最应该怎么做？请看来自@The New York Times记者 Joy Dong的报导。

Tong PingMoon said he first smelled smoke around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, and soon after, a firefighter banged on the door of his 10th floor apartment in Hong Kong to tell him a nearby building was on fire. Mr. Tong, 74, and his wife refused to evacuate then, thinking they would be all right, but the smoke soon got worse.

2025年11月26日即周三下午大约3点，身在香港的唐平满（Tong PingMoon）首先闻到了一股烟味。不久，一名消防员大力敲响了他位于10楼的公寓房门，告诉他附近一栋大楼起火了。74岁的唐先生和妻子起初拒绝撤离，觉得应该不会有问题，但烟雾很快变得越来越浓。

The couple, residents of Wang Fuk Court in the city's Tai Po district, then called for help and hid in the bathroom, using wet towels to cover their faces and guard against smoke coming through the gap under the door. They were rescued by firefighters around 6 p.m. and were staying at a school being used as a temporary shelter.

这对夫妇住在大埔区的宏福苑，他们随后打电话求助，并躲到了浴室里，用湿毛巾捂住口鼻，抵御从门底缝隙渗进来的烟雾。大约下午6点，夫妇俩被消防员救出，之后就被安置在一座被用作临时庇护所的学校里。

The fire in Tai Po started in one high-rise building in the midafternoon, and residents recounted how quickly it spread, forcing many to flee or seek help from firefighters. An unknown number of residents were trapped in the burning building, the officials said.

香港大埔的火灾是在下午三点多，从一桩高层建筑开始的。根据居民们的讲述，火势蔓延得极快，迫使许多人仓皇逃离，或向消防员请求援助。截止现在发稿当地官员表示，还有不明数量的居民被困在燃烧的大楼内。

Some of those who escaped stood outside around midnight, watching firefighters try to tame the inferno.

午夜时分，一些逃离火场的居民还站在楼外，看着努力扑灭熊熊烈焰的消防员们。

Lam Chi-Tong, a 71-year-old cleaner, was working in a police station near her home at Wang Fuk Court when she got a call from her son around 4 p.m. on Wednesday to tell her that a nearby building had caught fire. She hurried back to her complex, only to find that her building, along with others, was also ablaze.

林智彤（Lam Chi-Tong）是一名71岁的清洁工，当天她正在宏福苑家附近的警署上班，下午4点左右，她接到儿子的电话，说附近一栋大楼着火了。她急忙赶回宏福苑，发现自己家所在的大楼以及周边的楼栋早已陷入火海。

"I've lived here for 30 years. I just want to sit here and watch," she said with a sigh as the fire continued to burn into the night.

她无奈且迷茫的语调，“我在这里住了30年了，我现在只想坐在这儿看看。”夜色中，火势仍在继续。

凤凰网北美频道结束语：

这场发生在香港宏福苑的火灾，让这座承载着 4600 余名居民（超 30% 为 65 岁以上长者）的居屋陷入悲痛。悲剧的背后，是装修工程中易燃防护网、竹制脚手架等安全隐患的叠加，也暴露了过往类似风险未被足够重视的问题 —— 尽管内地早在 2021 年已禁用竹制脚手架，香港发展局也于 2025 年 3 月要求新建楼盘半数以上采用金属支架，但相关规范的落地与监管仍有缺失。目前，涉事装修工程承包商已因涉嫌误杀罪被警方逮捕，这场夺去数十条生命的惨剧，以最沉重的方式警示着消防安全无小事。