{"id":77967,"date":"2026-08-20T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77967"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:56:01","slug":"fire-at-nafa-workshop-leads-to-evacuation-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77967","title":{"rendered":"Fire at NAFA workshop leads to evacuation, no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->About 50 people<!-- --> were evacuated from the <!-- -->Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts<!-- --> (NAFA) campus after smoke from a fire was detected in one of its workshops in the <!-- -->late afternoon of Aug 18<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a reply to queries from The Straits Times, a NAFA spokesperson said the incident occurred at <!-- -->Campus 1, Wing B<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cAs a precautionary measure, <!-- -->Wing B<!-- --> was evacuated. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) attended to the incident,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF told ST it was alerted to the fire at <!-- -->80 Bencoolen Street<!-- --> \u2013 NAFA\u2019s address on the school\u2019s website \u2013 at about <!-- -->5.15pm that day<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cThe fire involved the air handling machinery within a workshop on level one of the affected building,\u201d SCDF said, adding that the fire was extinguished with a water jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It said that about <!-- -->50 people were evacuated from the building<!-- --> as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cThe safety of our students and staff is our priority, and we are working closely with SCDF,\u201d the NAFA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF said the cause of fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/nafa-campus-wing-evacuated-as-scdf-puts-out-fire-in-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 About 50 people were evacuated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) campus after smoke from a fire was detected in one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77968,"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-77967","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\/77967","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=77967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}