Coincidentally, history does not simply repeat itself, yet cycles do not seem to be coincidences.

Winter is dry, and it is a season prone to fires.

On the night of December 25, 1953, at 9:30 PM, in the Shek Kip Mei squatter area of Hong Kong, a shoemaker overturned a lamp, igniting the shoe adhesive...

The wooden house area was engulfed by a big fire within 10 minutes.

In just half an hour, the fire spread outside the village.

At 11:10 PM, the wooden houses in the entire Bai Tian Village, even the stone houses, along with the living supplies of 12,000 families, were all reduced to ashes.

The fire 72 years ago affected multiple wooden house areas, with a disaster area of up to 41 acres, equivalent to the size of 23 football fields.

Compared to the fire in Tai Po, the Shek Kip Mei squatter area was relatively lucky as it consists of single-story houses, allowing people to escape quickly, resulting in 3 dead and 51 injured.

However, 2,580 wooden houses were burned down, leaving 12,000 families and nearly 60,000 disaster victims displaced. Some families even became separated while fleeing from the fire.

In 1995, TVB's most classic sitcom "True Love" is set against the backdrop of this great fire, depicting the stories of those small characters who lost their families and were separated from their loved ones due to the Shek Yat Wai fire, showcasing their indomitable stories of true love.

However, is their tenacity innate? Or is it driven by the helplessness of fate?

Since the Shek Kip Mei fire 72 years ago, it is always the people living at the bottom who are injured.

The fire at Shek Kip Mei 72 years ago directly led to the establishment of public housing in Hong Kong. I wonder what kind of evolution this current fire will bring to society?