Boy escapes Kwun Tong apartment fire awaiting help on AC unit

A fire broke out in Kwun Tong's Tsui Ping (North) Estate during which a boy managed to escape his apartment and sought for help on top of an air conditioning unit.

He was later rescued and sent to the hospital.

Online footage showed the 13-year-old sitting on top of an AC unit outside his apartment as black smoke billowed from his residence.

Fire Services personnel subsequently entered the apartment and rescued him.

He was conscious when sent to the hospital.

Authorities received reports at around 8 p.m. of large amounts of smoke emerging from an apartment in the Kwun Tong housing estate.

There were also reports of what sounded like explosions.

Fire Services personnel managed to put out the blaze within half an hour with some 70 people evacuated from the site.

The police said the fire was caused by a charging device and that there are no suspicious causes for the incident.