2011 Fire
For more details on this topic, see 2011 Fa Yuen street fire.On 30 November 2011, the fire broke out at a hawker stall that spread to a housing flat resulting in 9 deaths and 34 injured. The density of the market and residential buildings make this area prone to such fire tragedies.
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