SINGAPORE \u2013 About 40 people were evacuated when a fire broke out on <\/i><\/b>the fourth storey of a shophouse in Serangoon Road at about 9.30am on July 22.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
An aerial water jet from a combined platform ladder was deployed to prevent the fire from spreading to adjacent units.<\/p>\n
The flames were extinguished within an hour, said SCDF, which added that damping down of the affected area was ongoing.<\/p>\n
Damping down refers to the pouring of water onto burnt surfaces immediately after a fire has been extinguished. This helps to cool hot surfaces and prevent flames from rekindling.<\/p>\n The fire broke out on the fourth storey of a shophouse in Serangoon Road at about 9.30am on July 22.<\/p>\n PHOTO: YEE JUN<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n When The Straits Times arrived at the scene at 10.45am, at least five police vehicles and three fire engines were there.<\/p>\n Firefighting operations were ongoing, with firefighters entering and leaving the affected unit.<\/p>\n The fire was extinguished within an hour, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: SARAH LEE<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Four out of the five traffic lanes in Serangoon Road were closed, causing a huge jam. The alleyway behind the shophouse was also cordoned off.<\/p>\n Four out of the five traffic lanes in Serangoon Road were closed, causing a huge jam.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: NADINE CHUA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Vinesh Krishnan, 45, manager of Indian restaurant Podi & Poriyal, several units down, said the fire was raging when he arrived for work at 9.30am.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cThere was thick black smoke when I reached (the restaurant). My colleague, who arrived 10 minutes earlier, told me the smoke was even thicker then.\u201d<\/p>\n The alleyway behind the shophouse was also cordoned off.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: NADINE CHUA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Phillip Yong, 67, a retiree who lives in a condominium opposite the unit where the fire started, said: \u201cI was on my way home after having breakfast in Boon Keng when I saw the smoke and knew immediately that something bad had happened.<\/p>\n \u201cIt seemed to me a residential unit above an Indian restaurant was affected. I know several people live there, as I\u2019ve seen them coming in and out of the unit in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n On Feb 15, fire broke out at a shophouse in Dunlop Street<\/span><\/a>. It started at a bak kwa shop and involved <\/i><\/b>the contents of a kitchen exhaust unit.<\/p>\n Another shophouse fire in River Valley in April 2025 took the life of a 10-year-old girl<\/span><\/a> and injured 21 others. The blaze started at a cooking school.<\/p>\n SCDF said in its annual statistics in February that more people were getting hurt in fires, with the figure rising from 80 in 2024 to 94 in 2025.<\/p>\n The total number of fires increased by 3 per cent \u2013 from 1,990 in 2024 to 2,050 in 2025.<\/p>\n There were seven fire deaths in 2024 and six in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 About 40 people were evacuated when a fire broke out on the fourth storey of a shophouse in Serangoon Road at about 9.30am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70717,"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-70716","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\/70716","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=70716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>
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