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SINGAPORE \u2013 Two people were taken to hospital, and about 200 others were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Choa Chu Kang flat on the night of Aug 29.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on Aug 30 that it was alerted to the blaze at Block 287 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2 at about 9.05pm on Aug 29.<\/p>\n
The fire involved items in a bedroom of a unit on the second floor. SCDF extinguished the fire using a water jet.<\/p>\n
Two people were evacuated from the affected unit before SCDF arrived. Two people were taken to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation, SCDF said. It is not clear whether the two people evacuated were the ones taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
As a precaution, SCDF and the police also evacuated about 200 people from the affected block.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n
August has seen a spate of HDB fires, some of which were fatal.<\/p>\n
On the night of Aug 25, about 70 people were evacuated<\/span><\/a> after a fire broke out in a bedroom of a housing unit in Balestier.<\/p>\n On Aug 20, an elderly man was taken to hospital after a fire broke out in an HDB flat in Buangkok Crescent<\/span><\/a>. The fire also involved the contents of a bedroom in the unit.<\/p>\n One person died, and 50 others were evacuated after a fire broke out in a Jurong East flat<\/span><\/a> early on Aug 16. The fire involved items in the unit\u2019s living room.<\/p>\n On Aug 3, a blaze broke out in a unit at Block 684 Race Course Road<\/span><\/a>. Five people, aged between 55 and 88, were taken to hospital. An 88-year-old man died on Aug 5.<\/p>\n SCDF said in its annual statistics in February<\/span><\/a> that the total number of fires increased by 3 per cent \u2013 from 1,990 in 2024 to 2,050 in 2025. Of these, 1,051 involved fires at residential buildings.<\/p>\n Unattended cooking and electrical fires, including electrical wiring faults or overloaded sockets, remained the top two causes of home fires.<\/p>\n Of the 304 cases of electrical fires at residential sites in 2025, 34 involved active mobility devices, including personal mobility devices, power-assisted bicycles and personal mobility aids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two people were taken to hospital, and about 200 others were evacuated after a fire broke out at a Choa Chu Kang flat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80751,"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-80750","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\/80750","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=80750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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