When flames tore by means of the Wang Fuk Court property in Tai Po, Hong Kong, William Li had no warning. A name from his spouse was the primary signal of hazard. For greater than two hours, Li and two neighbors have been trapped, battling suffocating smoke and falling particles earlier than firefighters pulled them to security. NCS’s (*13*) Montgomery spoke with the escapee whose survival is a uncommon miracle in a catastrophe that claimed virtually 150 lives and diminished his group of 40 years to ashes.