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Neighbour of hoarders exhausted all channels to no avail in decade leading up to Jurong East fire
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A photo taken in 2019 of the area outside Mr Kumar's flat where hoarded items were placed.
PHOTO: MR KUMAR
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SINGAPORE - After having sent close to a hundred e-mails to various authorities over nine years about his next-door neighbours' hoarding habit and the attendant fire risk, Mr Kumar's worst fears came true when a fire broke out in the early hours of Aug 16.
Noises that sounded like explosions from the outside of his ninth-storey flat at Block 236 Jurong East Street 21 roused Mr Kumar and his two tenants, who woke up to a wall of fire so high it licked the ceiling outside the flat.
