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SINGAPORE \u2013 A fire broke out in a Jurong East flat in the early hours of Aug 16, leaving one person dead and 50 others evacuated.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post that it was alerted to the fire at Block 339 Jurong East Avenue 1 at 3.55am.<\/p>\n
When SCDF arrived at the scene, black smoke was emitting from a unit on the third floor. The fire involved items in the unit\u2019s living room.<\/p>\n
The firefighters entered the unit by force and found an unresponsive person in the living room. The person was pronounced dead at the scene by a paramedic.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation, SCDF added.<\/p>\n
The Straits Times has contacted the police for more information.<\/p>\n
This is at least the fourth reported fatal fire in an HDB flat since July 28.<\/p>\n
A fire broke out in a flat at Block 39 Circuit Road on the morning of July 28 and\u00a0killed a 70-year-old man<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n On July 31, a fire in an\u00a0eighth-floor\u00a0flat at Block 309 Clementi Avenue 4\u00a0killed a 65-year-old man<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and injured two firefighters.<\/p>\n And on Aug 3, a blaze broke out in a fifth-floor unit at Block 684 Race Course Road, which saw five people aged between 55 and 88 taken to hospital. The 88-year-old man\u00a0died on Aug 5<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A fire broke out in a Jurong East flat in the early hours of Aug 16, leaving one person dead and 50 others…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76866,"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-76865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76865","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=76865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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