{"id":13396,"date":"2025-11-21T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:59:45","slug":"fire-breaks-out-in-sembawang-hdb-flat-two-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13396","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out in Sembawang HDB flat, two taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE &#8211;<!-- --> <!-- -->Two people<!-- --> were taken to hospital after a fire broke out in a third-floor unit of a <!-- -->HDB<!-- --> block in <!-- -->Sembawang<!-- --> on <!-- -->Nov 21<!-- -->. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The <!-- -->Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)<!-- --> said it was alerted to the fire at <!-- -->Block 362A Sembawang Crescent<!-- --> at around <!-- -->8.15am<!-- -->. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF said the fire involved<!-- --> contents of a bedroom,<!-- --> and was extinguished using a water jet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Two people from the affected unit were assessed for smoke inhalation and were taken to <!-- -->Singapore General Hospital<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF and the police evacuated <!-- -->about 50 residents<!-- --> from the block as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/fires-involving-amds-up-again-in-2024-with-21-8-rise-in-cases-more-people-died-in-fires?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">annual statistics report<\/p>\n<p><\/a> released on <!-- -->Feb 13<!-- -->, SCDF said there were<!-- --> 968 fires in homes in 2024<!-- -->, almost equal to the <!-- -->970 in 2023<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Unattended cooking and electrical fires \u2013 including faults in electrical wiring or overloaded sockets \u2013 remained the top two causes of home fires.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base tiktok tiktok-embed\" title=\"tiktok embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed\/v2\/7574983375723793672\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; 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