The helper, who gave her name as Olive, recalled to the Post the ordeal the trio went through on November 26, as the devastating fire swept through seven of the eight residential high-rise blocks at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po. The blaze lasted for 43 hours, killing at least 159 people and injuring another 79.
Olive, who turns 47 on December 15, said it was the first time she had been caught in a fire and that she had only been with the family for six months. Her employer, the couple’s son, 50, was at work at the time.
“I did not cry but was panicky and so afraid,” Olive said of the three hours trapped in the flat.
Married with a 21-year-old daughter, Olive said she also kept praying and messaging her family in Indonesia and friends in Hong Kong.
