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SINGAPORE \u2013 Around 70 people were evacuated after a fire broke out in a HDB flat at Punggol on Nov 10.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at\u00a0Block 105A Edgefield Plains at around 10.10pm.<\/p>\n
The fire started in a unit on the 15th floor, and the SCDF said it was \u201clikely from an electrical origin in the affected kitchen\u201d.<\/p>\n
In one of the videos posted on social media, a large piece of debris can be seen falling from the affected unit and onto the ground.<\/p>\n
The SCDF said it extinguished the fire using a water jet.<\/p>\n
It added that three people had been evacuated from the affected unit before its officers arrived.<\/p>\n
Two people were assessed for smoke inhalation, but they declined to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The SCDF remind the public not to overload electrical outlets with electrical appliances, and to switch them off when not in use.<\/p>\n
Wire conditions should also be checked regularly, with immediate replacement or repair of frayed wires or cracked cords. Wires should be kept away from under carpets, mats and hot surfaces.<\/p>\n
Homeowners should use only appliances and electrical plugs bearing safety marks, and not leave batteries or devices charging unattended for an extended period of time or overnight, the SCDF added.<\/p>\n
In its annual statistics report released in February, the SCDF said the total number of fires increased by 3% to 2,050 in 2025<\/span><\/a> \u2013 up from 1,990 in 2024. Of these, more than half involved fires in residential buildings.<\/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 Around 70 people were evacuated after a fire broke out in a HDB flat at Punggol on Nov 10. The Singapore Civil Defence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98941,"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-98940","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\/98940","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=98940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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