Mok, 59, is borrowing robotic exoskeleton legs to help her climb to her 13th floor apartment where she lived for the past 30 years, until a blaze in late November torched the complex, killing 168 people and displacing more than 4,000.
More than four months after a deadly fire engulfed her apartment block in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district, Fanny Mok is preparing to go back to retrieve what remains of her belongings.
“My knees hurt, I don’t have enough strength, and I get short of breath,” said Mok, who is temporarily staying in a small hostel room about a 25-minute drive from her former home.
She has been practising climbing stairs using the exoskeleton legs in an apartment building near Wang Fuk Court, where the inferno damaged seven high-rise towers.
Former residents will be allowed to return to their flats for the first time from April 20 to May 4, with each household given a three-hour window to collect belongings.
Mok is among dozens of fire victims who are borrowing the exoskeleton legs and taking training sessions to learn how to use them.
