Elderly man dies after fire at Circuit Road HDB flat
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An SCDF emergency vehicle at Block 39 Circuit Road. When firefighters arrived at the scene, black smoke was coming out from the living room of a unit on the ninth floor.
PHOTO: SCDF/FACEBOOK
SINGAPORE – A 70-year-old man has died after a fire broke out in an HDB flat in MacPherson in the early morning of July 28.
About 80 residents from the affected block were evacuated as a precaution, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) in a Facebook post on the same day.
In its post, SCDF said it was alerted to a fire at Block 39 Circuit Road at about 2.05am.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, black smoke was coming out from the living room of a unit on the ninth floor.
They had to forcibly enter the unit to extinguish the fire, which involved items in the living room, SCDF said.
The man was found unresponsive there. Firefighters immediately carried him out of the unit and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
He was taken unconscious to Changi General Hospital, where he later died, said SCDF and the police.
Investigations are ongoing, they added.
