EMERGENCY SERVICES

Deploy mobile escorts for emergency vehicles

Jun 4, 2019, 5:00 am

SCDF will attend to emergency cases

Apr 16, 2019, 5:00 am
From Monday, the SCDF will start deploying eight responders to cardiac arrest cases instead of four. They are trained in high-performance cardiopulmonary resuscitation which increases the survival rate for patients with cardiac arrests outside hospit

SCDF will not do hospital run if it's not emergency

Mar 30, 2019, 5:00 am

SCDF stops conveying non-emergency patients to hospital to focus on life-threatening cases

Mar 29, 2019, 8:11 pm

Excerpts from readers' letters

Mar 8, 2019, 5:00 am
To help responders arrive at the scene faster, the SCDF is working to allow more emergency vehicles to skip red traffic lights and make U-turns at non-designated junctions from April 1. Currently, only SCDF ambulances can do this.

SCDF beefing up response to life-threatening emergencies

Feb 23, 2019, 5:00 am

SCDF to deploy more and speedier resources for life-threatening cases as emergency calls continue to rise

Feb 22, 2019, 11:17 am
(From left) Lieutenant Yeo Ren Jie, Major Janice Oh and Captain Amelia Justina Lim are among the 10 or so officers who started out as paramedics in the Singapore Civil Defence Force and later underwent training in firefighting skills. They say having

Special SCDF officers can tackle fires and medical emergencies

Feb 7, 2019, 5:00 am
A firefighter and a rescue dog taking part in an earthquake rescue training at a base in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.

China's disaster, relief agencies now operating under one roof

Jan 24, 2019, 5:00 am