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Two people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a unit in an HDB block in Queenstown on Monday (Oct 19).<\/p>\n
Footage of the incident shared on Threads on Oct 19 shows thick black smoke pouring from the upper floors, <\/strong>with at least three floors appearing to be affected by the blaze.<\/p>\n Firefighters are also seen responding to the fire on multiple levels of the block.<\/p>\n When AsiaOne arrived at the scene, the fire had subsided with police officers present at the block.<\/p>\n Responding to queries from AsiaOne, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to a fire at Block 158 Mei Ling Street at about 12.30pm.<\/p>\n The fire involved items placed outside a unit on the 10th floor and was extinguished by SCDF using a water jet.<\/p>\n Two people who were inside the unit were evacuated by SCDF, with one taken to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n A person from a neighbouring unit was also taken to SGH for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n About 25 people were evacuated by the police and SCDF as a precautionary measure, while the cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n AsiaOne has reached out to the police for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:748104]]<\/p>\n xingying.koh@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Two people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a unit in an HDB block in Queenstown on Monday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94332,"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-94331","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\/94331","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=94331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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