The Fire Services Department will hold an official funeral service with full honours on July 17 for Senior Station Officer Thomas Cheung who died in the Ngau Tau Kok fire.
The service will be held at the Universal Funeral Parlour in Hung Hom. A customary mourning ceremony, open to the public, will be held at 8.30am.
It will be followed by an official ceremony starting at 9.30am at which senior government officials and the Director of Fire Services Lai Man-hin will lay wreaths.
An on-site ceremony will be held outside the Amoycan Industrial Centre in Ngau Tau Kok and the hearse will then proceed to the Fire & Ambulance Services Academy and Tai Po Fire Station where the officer had worked.
He will be buried in Gallant Garden at Wo Hop Shek Cemetery.
