{"id":50267,"date":"2026-05-06T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50267"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:59:42","slug":"joo-seng-fire-44-year-old-man-charged-after-allegedly-burning-a-pot-of-charcoal-in-hdb-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=50267","title":{"rendered":"Joo Seng fire: 44-year-old man charged after allegedly burning a pot of charcoal in HDB living room"},"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 <!-- -->The man allegedly responsible for starting a fire on May 4 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/8-taken-to-hospital-after-fire-at-joo-seng-road-hdb-block-man-arrested-for-mischief?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">engulfed a Housing Board flat in Potong Pasir<\/span><\/a> has been charged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Liu Zheyuan was on May 6 charged with one count of mischief by fire. The late night blaze resulted in 10 people, including two firefighters, needing attention at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Most had suffered from smoke inhalation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to court documents, the 44-year-old is accused of burning a pot of charcoal in the living room of an 18th floor unit at Block 14 Joo Seng Road at 9.40pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He had allegedly done so knowing that he would cause the destruction of the flat. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 taken to hospital after HDB flat fire at Joo Seng Road; man arrested for mischief\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EluU1_ZWZM0?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\">Liu will be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for medical examinations. He is due to return to court on May 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Authorities had responded to the fire after being alerted at 9.40pm on May 4. Ten people were taken to Singapore General Hospital, including two firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The operation required two water jets to extinguish the flames, which caused damage to the unit and parts of the HDB block. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singapore Civil Defence Force said earlier in a Facebook post that preliminary investigations suggested Liu had started the fire intentionally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">If found guilty, he can be jailed up to 10 years and fined. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-charged-with-mischief-by-fire-joo-seng-flat-blaze-saw-10-victims-sent-to-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 The man allegedly responsible for starting a fire on May 4 that engulfed a Housing Board flat in Potong Pasir has been charged&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50268,"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-50267","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\/50267","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=50267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}