VANCOUVER - Toronto resident Paul Chow was devastated when the apartment where he grew up made international news this week after a raging inferno tore through seven highrise towers in Hong Kong, leaving more than 100 dead and hundreds missing.

It has been a roller-coaster of emotions for Chow, who has gone from worry to sadness, distress and anger as he watched in horror, seeing the place he was born and lived for more than 30 years engulfed in flames, and knowing many of his former neighbours were still unaccounted for.

The deadly fire ripped through much of the eight-block Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on Wednesday.

Hong Kong Fire Services says it took firefighters a day to get the fire under control, noting it was fully extinguished by Friday morning,

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