{"id":61528,"date":"2026-06-17T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61528"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:46","slug":"mercedes-car-catches-fire-in-queenstown-no-injuries-reported-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61528","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes car catches fire in Queenstown, no injuries reported, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The engine compartment of a Mercedes coupe caught fire in Queenstown on Tuesday (June 16) evening.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the incident shared in a motoring chat group on Telegram shows the car stopped at the junction of Strathmore Avenue and Dawson Road, with flames engulfing its engine compartment.<\/p>\n<p>At least one Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) fire engine and a fire bike are seen responding to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the police arrived and blocked off the road during firefighting operations.<\/p>\n<p>In response to AsiaOne&#8217;s queries, SCDF stated that it was alerted to the fire at about 9.20pm, adding that its firefighters extinguished the fire using a water jet and a compressed air foam backpack.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Fire investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:738201]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:editor@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mercedes-car-fire-queenstown-strathmore-avenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The engine compartment of a Mercedes coupe caught fire in Queenstown on Tuesday (June 16) evening. A video of the incident shared in a motoring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61529,"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-61528","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\/61528","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=61528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}