{"id":37000,"date":"2026-03-17T21:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37000"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:28:36","slug":"woman-taken-to-hospital-after-her-power-bank-catches-fire-on-train-at-admiralty-mrt-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37000","title":{"rendered":"Woman taken to hospital after her power bank catches fire on train at Admiralty MRT station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A video of the incident shows the woman stamping on the flaming power bank on the floor of the train as other commuters look on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire is eventually extinguished, with the charred remains of the power bank still emitting smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lam said that first aid was rendered to the commuter, who was then taken to Woodlands Hospital by the Singapore Civil Defence Force. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For everyone&#8217;s safety, all commuters were asked to disembark and board the next train. The affected train was subsequently moved to the depot for further checks,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a passenger\u2019s power bank caught fire on an MRT train as it arrived at Raffles Place station along the East-West Line. It was put out by station staff members with a fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to remind commuters to ensure their power banks have proper safety protection features and are in good condition to reduce the risk of such incidents,&#8221; said Mr Lam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/power-bank-catches-fire-train-admiralty-mrt-station-commuter-taken-hospital-5998826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of the incident shows the woman stamping on the flaming power bank on the floor of the train as other commuters look on.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--a9OnD_J0--\/c_crop,h_607,w_1080,x_0,y_252\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/17\/mrt-power-bank-fire-7.png?itok=kPQKFwb8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18328,4088,13727,202,184,210,1214,338,5079,234],"class_list":["post-37000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-admiralty","tag-bank","tag-catches","tag-fire","tag-hospital","tag-mrt","tag-power","tag-station","tag-train","tag-woman","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000","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=37000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}