{"id":78510,"date":"2026-08-22T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78510"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:23:00","slug":"two-tp-officers-taken-to-hospital-after-bke-vehicle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78510","title":{"rendered":"Two TP officers taken to hospital after BKE vehicle fire"},"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 Two Traffic Police (TP) officers were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation after their vehicle caught fire at an expressway exit early on Aug 21.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about 12.10am on BKE towards Woodlands, at the slip road into SLE, according to the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).<\/p>\n<p>The police said the two TP officers were patrolling when they saw smoke emitting from the vehicle engine compartment and immediately evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Both officers and a member of the public then tried to put out the fire before SCDF firefighters extinguished it with a water jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The two TP officers were subsequently taken conscious to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video posted on Facebook, a vehicle is seen being engulfed in flames on the left side of a road bend, with no other vehicles passing on that road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Later in the same video, several firefighters are seen trying to extinguish the blaze, with a thick smoke cloud rising from the vehicle on fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/2-traffic-police-officers-taken-to-hospital-for-smoke-inhalation-after-vehicle-catches-fire-on-bke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Two Traffic Police (TP) officers were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation after their vehicle caught fire at an expressway exit early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78511,"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-78510","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\/78510","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=78510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}