Thursday, April 06, 2006

Hong Kong: Ching Ming, the aftermath















Photo source: Hong Kong Government Flying Service -- Photo Gallery

Yesterday was Ching Ming Festival Day. See previous post, which included:
(Someone, somehow, always seems to manage to set a hillside on fire; perhaps the festival should be renamed Burn Hillside Festival?)
BHF? Dude, make that a robust WTF. . . For, yes, as today's South China Morning Post reports, there were 31 reported hillside fires -- three quarters of them in the New Territories.
No mention of a little island in the South China Sea -- but the fire on hillside at Hung Shing Ye, Lamma Island was, according to SCMP, among the worst. Oh, last year there were 55 hill fires on Ching Ming Festival Day. Make of that what you will.

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