A deadly blaze ripped through bamboo scaffolding on a multi-tower housing estate in Hong Kong, killing dozens of people and leaving hundreds more missing.

The blaze is Hong Kong’s deadliest in more than 100 years. In 1918, a fire ripped through the city’s Happy Valley Racecourse, killing 614 people. In August 1962, a fire in the city’s Sham Shui Po district killed 44 people, while a fire at the Garley Building on Nathan Road in Kowloon killed 41 people and injured 81 others in November 1996.

As stunned Hong Kong residents grapple with the sheer speed and scale of a deadly fire, they’re raising critical questions about whether this disaster could have been prevented.

A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 83 people with many more still missing, in the city’s worst disaster in decades.

Ahead of Thanksgiving, the Knox County Fire Prevention Bureau teamed up with the Karns Fire Department for a dramatic safety demonstration.

CNN’s Hanako Montgomery breaks down the timeline of how a small fire in Hong Kong spread from one building to several in a public housing complex, leaving hundreds displaced and missing.

According to the Providence Preservation Society's Guide to Providence Architecture, the fire house was designed by E.T. Banning in the Beaux Arts-style, the only fire station in the city designed that way. Other things he or his firm designed include Temple Beth-El on Broad Street and the Roger Williams Park Casino.