{"id":29905,"date":"2026-02-20T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29905"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:10:39","slug":"one-crew-member-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-on-singapore-bound-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29905","title":{"rendered":"One crew member dead after fire breaks out on Singapore-bound cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>SINGAPORE: One crew member died after a fire broke out on a cruise ship en route to Singapore, the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said on Friday (Feb 20).<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Of the 388 crew members onboard, none were Singaporean. There were 224 passengers, including 185 Singaporeans. There were no reported injuries among the other crew members and passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The incident occurred at around 4am aboard the Liberia-registered vessel WORLD LEGACY, and the fire was put under control by the crew shortly after, MPA said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The vessel is in a stable condition and is currently anchored at Raffles Reserved Achorage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>MPA patrol craft, the police coast guard and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SDFC) are attending to the vessel, said MPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/cruise-ship-fire-world-legacy-5941831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: One crew member died after a fire broke out on a cruise ship en route to Singapore, the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--oeqNXxyc--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/02\/20\/world_legacy_cruise_ship.jpg?itok=MuJH4hjX","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7129,4814,4943,4625,202,1487,1433,16010],"class_list":["post-29905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-breaks","tag-crew","tag-cruise","tag-dead","tag-fire","tag-member","tag-ship","tag-singaporebound","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905","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=29905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}