Chitchat Firefighters Climb 14 Floors With Their Equipment Because Lifts Not Working! Guess GRC!

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE - A fire related to a Personal Mobility Device broke out at a Housing Board flat on the 14th floor of Block 104D Canberra Street on Saturday (June 9) afternoon.

Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) rescued two boys trapped in a bedroom and sent them to KK Women's and Children's Hospital for burn injuries. Three adults were sent to Singapore General Hospital and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital for smoke inhalation.

SCDF was alerted at 4.15pm and said in a Facebook post that "firefighters, with their air cylinders, had to lug firefighting and rescue equipment up the stairs to reach the raging fire as the lifts were not functioning".

SCDF added that the living room was engulfed in flames and the fire was extinguished within 15 minutes.

The Sunday Times understands that an off-duty section commander from Tuas View fire station was among a group who had tried to put out the fire before SCDF arrived.

A resident on the second floor, who wanted to be known only as Roy, said he heard shouting from the multi-storey carpark opposite the block. He added that he saw four fire engines and two ambulances present.



SCDF is investigating the cause of the fire but said on Facebook that preliminary findings indicate it originated from the battery pack of a Personal Mobility Device in the flat.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...flat-scdf-rescues-two-boys-from-affected-unit

 

[syed putra]

Why is the street named " canberra"? Surely got other local alternative.

 

[Leongsam]

Why is the street named " canberra"? Surely got other local alternative.

That street used to belong to the Ang Mohs.

 

[AhMeng]

SINGAPORE - A fire related to a Personal Mobility Device broke out at a Housing Board flat on the 14th floor of Block 104D Canberra Street on Saturday (June 9) afternoon.

Electric wheelchair caused the fire?

 

[syed putra]

That street used to belong to the Ang Mohs.

Canberra i think is a aboriginal name of a location.

 

[SongBoh]

Not WP GRC. It is MIW GRC.
Songboh

 

[songsongjurong]

 

[blackmore]

Canberra i think is a aboriginal name of a location.

That area a lot roads name after Joey and Kiwi land. Letting our amdk feel more homesick mah

 

[virus]

No such thing as section commander all r rota commander

 

[virus]

That street used to belong to the Ang Mohs.

Got angmoh chicken plying there naked?

 

[Rogue Trader]

Firefighters are supposed to use the stairs in cases of fire, No?

 

[halsey02]

Firefighters are supposed to use the stairs in cases of fire, No?

That was what I was thinking...in lifts there is always a sign that says, IN CASE OF FIRE DO NOT USE THE LIFT...but they didn't tell you what to do, in case the staircase is on fire...a small print in the smallest font will say "jump off the building"...ha ha ha ha

 

[halsey02]

Why is the street named " canberra"? Surely got other local alternative.

You obviously have not been to Sembawang Area...when the Naval Base was there...Kings Avenue, Queen's Avenue, Lagos Circle, Wellington Circle, Ottawa Road, Bermuda Rd, Canada Rd, Pakistan Rd. etc..we have a Toronto Rd., in Windsor Park Estate..

 

[Truth_Hurts]

You obviously have not been to Sembawang Area...when the Naval Base was there...Kings Avenue, Queen's Avenue, Lagos Circle, Wellington Circle, Ottawa Road, Bermuda Rd, Canada Rd, Pakistan Rd. etc..we have a Toronto Rd., in Windsor Park Estate..

We have a Windsor castle?

 

[halsey02]

We have a Windsor castle?

Have have you been? WINDSOR PARK ROAD off Upper Thomson Road near to Thomson Plaza, where the MRT Stn is being built!

 

[virus]

castle at level 12 and 15, tuina mei mei will make u feel like king and offer golden shower

 

[Truth_Hurts]

Have have you been? WINDSOR PARK ROAD off Upper Thomson Road near to Thomson Plaza, where the MRT Stn is being built!

Never been to Thomson in decades. So don't know wat it's like there. Just say I have been living n a cave