SINGAPORE – A 77-year-old woman who was taken unconscious to hospital after a fire in a Bukit Panjang flat on Sept 28 has died, the police said on Sept 30.
This would make it the sixth death from a fire since July 28.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a social media post on Sept 28 that it was alerted to the fire at Block 126 Pending Road at about 3pm that day.
When its officers arrived at the scene, black smoke was coming out of a unit on the sixth floor.
The fire involved items in the living room, said SCDF, adding that the cause of the fire was under investigation.
The fire was extinguished using one water jet.
Firefighters found an unconscious person in the living room during the firefighting operation, and took the person out of the unit.
An SCDF paramedic and emergency medical technicians performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation before the person was taken to Woodlands Hospital.
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