{"id":42279,"date":"2026-04-07T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42279"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:01:36","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-buona-vista-building-which-houses-mindefs-digital-tech-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42279","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at Buona Vista building which houses Mindef\u2019s digital tech agency"},"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 A fire broke out at a building in <!-- -->Buona Vista <!-- -->which houses the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) in the evening of April 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The CSIT is the <!-- -->lead digital technology agency in the Ministry of Defence<!-- --> (Mindef). <\/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 a fire involving a cooling tower on the rooftop of a building at 30 Science Park Road at 6.35pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The blaze was<!-- --> extinguished by workers in the building using a hosereel and dry powder fire extinguishers before the SCDF arrived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation, added SCDF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A video <!-- -->taken at the nearby National University of Singapore campus <!-- -->and posted on social media platform Xiaohongshu <!-- -->on April 6<!-- --> <!-- -->shows <!-- -->a large plume of smoke rising from a distance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Straits Times has contacted Mindef for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/fire-breaks-out-at-buona-vista-building-which-houses-mindefs-digital-tech-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A fire broke out at a building in Buona Vista which houses the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) in the evening of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42280,"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-42279","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\/42279","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=42279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}