Despairing Hongkongers Stranded by Fire Search for Answers

Residents at a temporary shelter near Wang Fuk Court.Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg

Lee calls himself lucky.

The septuagenarian was meeting friends at a restaurant when a fire broke out at a Hong Kong building next to his on Wednesday. The flames quickly spread to the tower that housed Lee’s home, leaving him and his wife among hundreds uprooted by the city’s deadliest blaze in decades.