The apartment was on fire after an electric heater flamed. Photo: Facebook.
An aflamed electric heater at an apartment occupied by 3 Hong Kong family members has ended them in the hospital on Wednesday.
The emergency services arrived on the 13th floor of three-bedroom apartment at Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate on Humbert Street in Lai Chi Kok at around 7.40 am after distress calls that a unit was on fire.
The firefighters were able to quench the blaze under 20 minutes after the fire had caused a significant damage to the living room where the fire started.
The occupants of the units, the mother who is 59 years old and her two daughters aged 27 and 30 years sustained different kind of injuries.
The woman got bruises on her hand, while her elder daughter said she was feeling sick after smoke inhalation from the fire. The younger daughter said she got a shock and asked for treatment, police said.
The three family members were later taken to the Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung for the treatment.
The report said the items in the living room caught fire after the heater burst into flames while the woman and her daughters were in their bedrooms but they tried to find their way out of the flame before the firefighers came.
The force said that there was no evidence showing that the fire was intentional.
The investigations of the cause of the blaze are ongoing, the report said.
電加熱器著火併燒毀了一個家庭的三名成員，併入院治療
週三，三名香港家庭成員居住的公寓內的電暖氣著火，導致他們被送往醫院。
緊急救援人員於早上7時40分左右抵達荔枝角亨伯特街美孚新村屋村三房公寓的13樓。 接到求救訊號表示某個單元著火後。
火災對起火的客廳造成嚴重損壞後，消防隊員在 20 分鐘內將火勢撲滅。
該單位的住戶，即59歲的母親和她分別為27歲和30歲的兩個女兒均受到不同程度的傷害。
這名婦女的手上有瘀傷，而她的大女兒則表示，她吸入火災產生的煙霧後感到噁心。 警方稱，小女兒說她受到了驚嚇，要求接受治療。
三名家人其後被送往葵湧瑪嘉烈醫院接受治療。
報導稱，當這名婦女和她的女兒們在臥室裡時，加熱器突然起火，客廳裡的物品著火了，但她們在消防員到來之前試圖逃離火焰。
警方表示，沒有證據顯示火災是故意的。
報告稱，起火原因的調查正在進行中。
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