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SINGAPORE:<\/span> A faulty dry rising main disrupted firefighting efforts during a fatal fire at a Clementi flat on Friday (Jul 31), forcing firefighters to switch to a contingency plan after discovering the building’s firefighting system was not working properly.<\/p>\n Responding to media queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) \u00a0said on Sunday that firefighters responding to the blaze at Block 309 Clementi Avenue 4 found that the dry rising main was not working properly. This resulted in reduced water pressure that prevented water from being supplied effectively to the affected eighth floor.<\/p>\n A dry rising main is a vertical red-coloured pipe installed in buildings, which is charged with water from a fire engine to facilitate firefighting operations on the upper floors of the building.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSCDF firefighters immediately set up hoses directly from the fire engine at ground level to the affected floor via the staircase,\u201d SCDF said, adding that this is a contingency that firefighters regularly train for during routine drills.<\/span><\/p>\n SCDF said it is investigating the incident and that the town council is required to rectify the dry rising main to ensure it is in proper working condition.<\/span><\/p>\n SCDF was alerted to the fire at about 11.10pm on Friday. One person died and two firefighters suffered burn injuries during the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n During the operation, firefighters rescued a person trapped in the kitchen, who was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. The person later died.<\/p>\n The two firefighters were transported to Singapore General Hospital. One firefighter has since been discharged and is resting at home, said the SCDF in a Facebook post update on Aug 1.<\/p>\n CNA has contacted the Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council and national water agency PUB for comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In July 2025, investigations into a blaze in Toa Payoh that sent seven people to hospital revealed a faulty dry rising main that could have been caused by an underground pipe leak. The faulty dry rising main forced firefighters to <\/span>haul hoses up 10 storeys<\/span> to establish a water supply to fight the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: A faulty dry rising main disrupted firefighting efforts during a fatal fire at a Clementi flat on Friday (Jul 31), forcing firefighters to switch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--TGvpg6RF--\/c_crop,h_295,w_526,x_0,y_378\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/01\/clementifirescdf.jpg?itok=NNNWsYFc","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8150,7020,6228,14733,202,7765,15626,6236,17992,27602,11243,4142],"class_list":["post-73790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-clementi","tag-dry","tag-fatal","tag-faulty","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-floors","tag-forced","tag-haul","tag-hose","tag-main","tag-rising","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73790","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=73790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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