{"id":65931,"date":"2026-07-04T02:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65931"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:26:15","slug":"child-taken-to-hospital-after-fire-breaks-out-in-yishun-hdb-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65931","title":{"rendered":"Child taken to hospital after fire breaks out in Yishun HDB flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Twenty-five residents were evacuated<!-- --> <!-- -->and a child was taken to hospital after a fire broke out in the living room of a Yishun HDB flat on the evening of July 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a Facebook post, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to a fire in a flat on the 12th floor of Block 381C Yishun Ring Road at about 5.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Upon arriving, SCDF officers found the living room of the flat on fire. The blaze was put out with a water jet. During the operation, a team of firefighters found a child in a bedroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The child was assessed for smoke inhalation and taken to KK Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The total number of fires in Singapore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/more-fire-injuries-and-ev-blazes-in-2025-nearly-half-of-emergency-calls-involved-seniors-scdf?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\">increased by 3 per cent<\/span><\/a> from 2024 to 2025, climbing from 1,990 cases to 2,050 cases. Of these, 1,051 cases involved fires at residential buildings \u2013 an 8.6 per cent increase from the 968 cases in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Unattended cooking and electrical fires, including faults in electrical wiring or overloaded sockets, remained the top two causes of home fires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/child-taken-to-hospital-after-fire-breaks-out-in-yishun-hdb-flat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Twenty-five residents were evacuated and a child was taken to hospital after a fire broke out in the living room of a Yishun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65932,"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-65931","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\/65931","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=65931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}