{"id":49994,"date":"2026-05-05T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49994"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:53:36","slug":"smrt-bus-catches-fire-near-woodgrove-primary-school-in-woodlands-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49994","title":{"rendered":"SMRT bus catches fire near Woodgrove Primary School in Woodlands; no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>SINGAPORE: An SMRT bus caught fire near Woodgrove Primary School in Woodlands on Tuesday (May 5), with no injuries reported, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The vehicle had stopped at a bus stop along Woodlands Ave 1 at around 1.30pm to allow passengers to alight, when the captain noticed smoke coming from the driver&#8217;s compartment, said SMRT deputy managing director Vincent Gay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cAs a precaution, he immediately guided all passengers to alight and move to a safe distance,\u201d Mr Gay added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cShortly after, a fire broke out at the front of the bus and he promptly alerted the Bus Operations Control Centre, which activated the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/smrt-bus-catches-fire-woodgrove-primary-school-woodlands-avenue-1-6100736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: An SMRT bus caught fire near Woodgrove Primary School in Woodlands on Tuesday (May 5), with no injuries reported, authorities said. The vehicle had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--qgDRCDqd--\/c_crop,h_646,w_1150,x_0,y_183\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/05\/687542041_18583818145021919_1019536749974393779_n.jpg?itok=6sXyFJGX","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3239,13727,202,6394,9275,2145,848,6835,22052,8149],"class_list":["post-49994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bus","tag-catches","tag-fire","tag-injuries","tag-primary","tag-reported","tag-school","tag-smrt","tag-woodgrove","tag-woodlands","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49994","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=49994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}