{"id":15102,"date":"2025-11-28T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15102"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:27:54","slug":"scdf-frees-man-whose-arm-was-trapped-in-drain-pipe-under-kitchen-sink-in-jurong-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=15102","title":{"rendered":"SCDF frees man whose arm was trapped in drain pipe under kitchen sink in Jurong West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rescuers, among them members of SCDF\u2019s elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team, dismantled the kitchen sink and the cabinet surrounding the drainpipe to create enough room.<\/p>\n<p>Another team proceeded to the unit directly below and cut a segment of the drain pipe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis allowed the rescuers to see how the arm was trapped and decide how to carefully manoeuvre the arm to free it. A lubricant was used to ease the arm out of the drain pipe,\u201d SCDF said.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Ng Teng Fong General Hospital was also on-site to assess and render medical support to the man and applied an intravenous drip.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who remained conscious throughout the rescue operation, was freed in about two hours and was taken to the National University Hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/arm-stuck-drain-pipe-kitchen-sink-jurong-west-flat-scdf-rescue-5494866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers, among them members of SCDF\u2019s elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team, dismantled the kitchen sink and the cabinet surrounding the drainpipe to create enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--YwhfvXcf--\/c_crop,h_607,w_1080,x_0,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/11\/28\/2_panel_composite_14.png?itok=1mKKrWTP","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11041,11042,11040,9575,5723,140,11043,4579,9315,5052,7625],"class_list":["post-15102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-arm","tag-drain","tag-frees","tag-jurong","tag-kitchen","tag-man","tag-pipe","tag-scdf","tag-sink","tag-trapped","tag-west","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}