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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 61-year-old man is assisting in police investigations after a fire broke out in an HDB flat in Toa Payoh on the morning of Oct 25.<\/p>\n
The man was taken conscious to Singapore General Hospital, and about 10 other residents of the block were evacuated as a safety precaution, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) in response to queries on Oct 26.<\/p>\n
SCDF said it was alerted to the fire at Block 170 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh around 9.20am on Oct 25.<\/p>\n
Its officers forced entry into the second-floor unit and used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze, which involved items in a bedroom.<\/p>\n
Another person was assessed for minor injuries but declined to be taken to hospital, SCDF said.<\/p>\n
The police said the 61-year-old is assisting in investigations related to the offence of causing or contributing to the risk of dangerous fire.<\/p>\n
The block is listed as a one-room public rental flat on the Housing Board\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
A 62-year-old neighbour living on the second floor told Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News that she heard the man shouting on Oct 25, and that her granddaughter saw him kicking a hat on the floor and throwing glass bottles.<\/p>\n
She told the newspaper that the man has lived in the unit for more than 10 years, adding that he is a friendly person who gets along with neighbours.<\/p>\n
According to SCDF\u2019s annual statistics report released in February<\/span><\/a>, the total number of fires increased by 3% from 1,990 in 2024 to 2,050 in 2025.<\/p>\n Of these, 1,051 involved residential buildings in 2025.<\/p>\n Unattended cooking and electrical fires \u2013 including faults in electrical wiring or overloaded sockets \u2013 remained the top two causes of home fires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 61-year-old man is assisting in police investigations after a fire broke out in an HDB flat in Toa Payoh on the morning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95729,"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-95728","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\/95728","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=95728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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