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SINGAPORE: A 70-year-old man died after a fire broke out in a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat in MacPherson early on Tuesday (Jul 28), with firefighters finding him unresponsive inside the unit.<\/span><\/p>\n The man was found in the living room of a ninth-floor unit at Block 39 Circuit Road, after firefighters forced their way into the flat filled with black smoke, Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post.<\/span><\/p>\n Rescuers immediately carried him out of the flat and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before he was taken to Changi General Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n The police and SCDF said that they were alerted to the fire at about 2.05am.<\/span><\/p>\n During the operation, they evacuated about 80 residents from the housing block as a precaution.<\/p>\n The fire, involving items in the living room, was “swiftly extinguished”, SCDF said.<\/p>\n The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: A 70-year-old man died after a fire broke out in a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat in MacPherson early on Tuesday (Jul 28),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--uHnWJFj8--\/c_crop,h_866,w_1539,x_1,y_347\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/07\/28\/scdf-fire-block-39-circuit-road.jpg?itok=7Csc0M57","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17725,18889,4625,16097,202,10863,4286,140,718,1197],"class_list":["post-72399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-70yearold","tag-circuit","tag-dead","tag-evacuated","tag-fire","tag-flat","tag-hdb","tag-man","tag-residents","tag-road","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72399","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=72399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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