{"id":9100,"date":"2025-11-05T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:17:37","slug":"40-evacuated-4-taken-to-hospital-after-pmd-linked-fire-in-yishun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9100","title":{"rendered":"40 evacuated, 4 taken to hospital after PMD-linked fire in Yishun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE &#8211; <!-- -->A fire linked to a personal mobility device (PMD) broke out in Yishun in the early hours of Nov 5, causing about <!-- -->40 people<!-- --> from the affected block to be evacuated and <!-- -->four to be taken to hospital<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This was less than four hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/4-taken-to-hospital-200-evacuated-after-pma-linked-fire-at-ang-mo-kio-hdb-block?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">another fire involving a personal mobility aid<\/p>\n<p><\/a> at an HDB block in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 late on\u00a0Nov 4.<!-- --> <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), <!-- -->which was alerted to the fire at <!-- -->Block 475B Yishun Street 44 <!-- -->at about 2.25am, extinguished the fire after arriving at the scene.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to SCDF\u2019s preliminary findings, the fire likely originated from a PMD in the living room of a third-floor unit.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Four people from the affected unit<!-- --> were assessed for smoke inhalation and taken to Singapore General Hospital, added SCDF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It reminded members of the public not to purchase or use non-original batteries for their active mobility devices, including PMDs and power-assisted bicycles (PABs), and to not charge PMD\/PAB batteries for an extended period of time or overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In the first half of 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/askst-what-are-the-fire-safety-rules-for-pmds?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">there were 20 fires involving PMDs<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, up from 10 in the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a Facebook post on Nov 5, Nee Soon GRC MP Syed Harun Alhabsyi lauded residents\u2019 efforts in helping one another during the evacuation process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cI spoke with the family and reassured them that our grassroot leaders, as well as colleagues from the Housing and Development Board and Nee Soon Town Council will do their best in supporting them in this time of difficulty,\u201d Dr Syed Harun said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cA few weeks ago, we had conducted our Emergency Preparedness Exercise at this same neighbourhood. This incident is a strong and timely reminder for all of us to stay vigilant, to learn first responder skills where we can and to continue looking out for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Fires\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Fires<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Personal mobility devices\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Personal mobility devices<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for SCDF\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">SCDF<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/40-evacuated-4-taken-to-hospital-after-pmd-linked-fire-in-yishun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; A fire linked to a personal mobility device (PMD) broke out in Yishun in the early hours of Nov 5, causing about 40&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"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-9100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","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=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}