{"id":26634,"date":"2026-01-08T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26634"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:48:00","slug":"one-taken-to-hospital-30-evacuated-after-fire-breaks-out-at-sungei-kadut-industrial-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=26634","title":{"rendered":"One taken to hospital, 30 evacuated after fire breaks out at Sungei Kadut industrial building"},"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 \u2013 <!-- -->One person was taken to hospital after a fire broke out at an<!-- --> industrial building in <!-- -->Sungei Kadut on the night of Jan 7<!-- -->. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a Facebook post<!-- --> that evening<!-- -->, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at <!-- -->14 Sungei Kadut Avenue at about 6.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A production area on the <!-- -->second floor of the four-storey industrial building<!-- --> was on fire when SCDF officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cFirefighters deployed three water jets to contain the fire within the workshop,\u201d said SCDF. The fire was extinguished <!-- -->at about 8pm<!-- -->, it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">One person was assessed for smoke inhalation and taken to <!-- -->Singapore General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF added that<!-- --> 30 people<!-- --> were evacuated from the affected building before its officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">When The Straits Times arrived at the scene at about 8.20pm, part of the building was seen cordoned off as SCDF officers attended to the site, which is also the address of glass manufacturer <!-- -->Da Di Glass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SCDF on the scene of second Sungei Kadut fire in a week\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SM8Ro1v0__A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The walls surrounding a room on the second floor appeared charred, with the damage stretching up towards the top floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Straits Times understands that the building contains a glass factory on the first level, a facility for aluminium making on the second level, where the fire broke out, and dormitory facilities on the third and fourth levels.<\/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\">ST has contacted Da Di Glass for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video posted on the Friends of Yew Tee Facebook group, plumes of smoke can be seen billowing from Sungei Kadut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This is the second fire to have broken out in the Sungei Kadut area in a week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Jan 2, a fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/fire-breaks-out-at-industrial-building-in-sungei-kadut-no-injuries-reported?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\">broke out at another industrial building at 8 Sungei Kadut Crescent<\/p>\n<p><\/a>. The fire was put out after about an hour, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Fires\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Fires<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for SCDF\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">SCDF<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Fire safety rules\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Fire safety rules<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/fire-breaks-out-at-industrial-building-in-sungei-kadut-scdf-on-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 One person was taken to hospital after a fire broke out at an industrial building in Sungei Kadut on the night of Jan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634","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=26634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}