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