{"id":74450,"date":"2026-08-05T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=74450"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:32:06","slug":"race-course-road-fire-88-year-old-man-dies-after-blaze-that-trapped-five-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=74450","title":{"rendered":"Race Course Road fire: 88-year-old man dies after blaze that trapped five people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: An 88-year-old man has died two days after a fire broke out at a fifth-storey flat along Race Course Road, said the police in an update on Wednesday (Aug 5).<\/p>\n<p>He was one of five people, aged between 55 and 88, taken to hospital after the blaze at Block 684 Race Course Road on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man, who was unconscious when taken to hospital, died on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>First responders had arrived to find one of the unit\u2019s bedrooms ablaze and several people trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers forcibly gained entry into the locked flat and rescued a woman. Shortly after, Singapore Civil Defence Force officers (SCDF) rescued the remaining four victims. Three of the five people rescued were found unconscious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/race-course-road-fire-88-year-old-man-dies-6300546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: An 88-year-old man has died two days after a fire broke out at a fifth-storey flat along Race Course Road, said the police in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--5dX_f69z--\/c_crop,h_921,w_1638,x_0,y_307\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/03\/scdf.png?itok=9XHrtjwb","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27739,12526,3134,202,140,121,570,1197,5052],"class_list":["post-74450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-88yearold","tag-blaze","tag-dies","tag-fire","tag-man","tag-people","tag-race","tag-road","tag-trapped","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74450","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=74450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}