At least 75 people have died and the official death toll may rise as firefighters in Hong Kong continue to fight one of the city’s deadliest ever blazes that broke out over 24 hours ago and continues to devastate a multi-block housing estate.

The fire in Wang Fuk Court, an eight-block complex built in the 1980s in the northeastern district of Tai Po, began on Wednesday afternoon and spread to seven of the estate’s buildings. By nightfall, the city upgraded the fire to a level 5 alarm—the highest severity on the city’s scale. It continued to burn on Thursday, though by 3 p.m. local time (2 a.m. ET), the fires in four of the blocks had been extinguished and the other three were “under control.”

Authorities are still investigating the fire’s cause, but their preliminary findings flagged the

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