"The city is built on bamboo...It's super fast. It's versatile. And any Hong Kongers will tell you it's stronger than steel."
Tom Grundy, chief editor of Hong Kong Free Press, says the real cause of the deadly fire in Hong Kong is not the bamboo scaffolding, which has "largely survived" the blaze.
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