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SINGAPORE \u2013 Six people were taken to hospital and about 120 others were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Sengkang HDB flat on June 12.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at Block 125 Rivervale Street at about 4.10pm.<\/p>\n
Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which happened in a bedroom of a third-floor unit, with a water jet.<\/p>\n
Six people who suffered from smoke inhalation were taken to Singapore General Hospital.<\/p>\n
About 120 people were evacuated from the affected block as a precautionary measure, SCDF said.<\/p>\n
SCDF added that no one was in the affected unit when it arrived.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n
Footage circulating on social media platform Xiaohongshu on June 12 shows flames billowing from a window of the third-storey unit, with black smoke rising to the 17th floor.<\/p>\n
At least four fire engines were seen at the scene.<\/p>\n
This is the second reported fire on June 12. Earlier in the day, about 80 firefighters and 20 emergency vehicles were deployed after a fire broke out at an industrial warehouse in Tuas<\/span><\/a>. There were no injuries.<\/p>\n According to SCDF\u2019s latest annual statistics released in February 2026<\/span><\/a>, the total number of fires rose by 3 per cent, from 1,990 in 2024 to 2,050 in 2025. Of these, 1,051 occurred in residential buildings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Six people were taken to hospital and about 120 others were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Sengkang HDB flat on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60267,"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-60266","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\/60266","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=60266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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