Fire breaks out in bedroom of Toa Payoh HDB flat; 1 taken to hospital
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The damage caused by the fire in one of the bedrooms of the Toa Payoh unit.
PHOTO: SCDF/FACEBOOK
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SINGAPORE – One person was taken to hospital after a fire broke out in the bedroom of a Toa Payoh Housing Board flat on the morning of July 14.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post that it responded to the fire in a 12th floor unit at Block 194 Kim Keat Avenue at about 11.50am.
Firefighters put out the flames with a water jet after entering the smoke-filled unit.
There was heat and smoke damage to the rest of the unit, as well as the corridor area, said SCDF.
Three people escaped from the affected unit before the SCDF arrived, and about 60 residents from the block were evacuated by the police as a precautionary measure.
SCDF said it assessed two people for smoke inhalation.
One of them was taken to the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, while the other declined to be taken to the hospital, it added.
SCDF said that preliminary findings indicate that the fire was likely of an electrical origin in the affected bedroom.
According to SCDF’s annual statistics report
Of these fires, 299 were of electrical origin, while 335 were from unattended cooking, making these the top two causes of fires in residential premises.
There were 8.3 per cent more fires of electrical origin in 2024 than in 2023.
Fires of electrical origin were mostly caused by faults in electrical wiring or electrical appliances, or the overloading of electrical sockets, SCDF said.
