‘First by letting myself move on’: how Hong Kong mum is rebuilding life after Tai Po fire
Christy Lee, 40, lost everything in the Wang Fuk Court inferno but says she cannot allow herself to dwell on negative thoughts
The social worker, 40, her mother-in-law and two children, aged seven and nine, had crammed into a 150 sq ft flat in transitional housing provided by the government after the inferno at the Wang Fuk Court estate on November 26.
The blaze tore through seven of the Tai Po estate’s eight residential blocks, killing 161 people, injuring 79 others and leaving 5,000 homeless.
Lee has juggled her time over the past month between gathering essential goods from friends, getting aid from organisations and finding a home for the family, which is now solely dependent on her.
Looking around her new 700 sq ft flat in Tai Hang village, a 15-minute drive from her old home at Wang Cheong House – where she had lived with her husband after they got married in 2015 – it sunk in on Friday just how much she had done in the past month.