A fast-moving fire ripped through a cluster of high-rise apartment towers in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 15 others.

Buildings are still burning six hours later, as Reuters provides a YouTube live of the fire.

The blaze began just before 3 p.m. local time (around midnight Mountain Time) at Wang Fuk Court — a public housing complex of nearly 2,000 apartments — and quickly spread across bamboo scaffolding that wrapped several of the buildings, The New York Times reported .

Emergency officials said the fire had reached Hong Kong’s highest alarm level. A 37-year-old firefighter was among the dead. Hong Kong’s director of fire services, Andy Yeung, issued a release stating , “I am profoundly grieved at the loss of this dedicated and

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