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Charging phone catches fire & burns down Toa Payoh flat, 6-year-old boy sent to hospital
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The family's cat was unfortunately killed in the fire.
By Jeremy Lee - 14 Jul 2025, 11:21 pm
Grandmother & 2 kids flee Toa Payoh flat after phone catches fire while being charged
A mobile phone reportedly burst into flames while it was being charged, causing a grandmother and her two grandchildren to flee their flat.
The ensuing blaze led to a six-year-old boy being sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation and the death of their pet cat.
Source: Singapore Civil Defence Force on Facebook
SCDF alerted to Toa Payoh fire on 14 July
According to a Facebook post by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), it was alerted to the fire at about 11.50am on Monday (14 July) morning.The location was a 12th-floor unit in Block 194 Kim Keat Avenue.
Source: Google Maps
When SCDF arrived, one of the bedrooms was on fire, and firefighters extinguished it using a water jet.
However, the unit and the corridor area outside sustained heat and smoke damage.
About 60 people were evacuated from the block as a precautionary measure.
Phone emits sparks & smoke while charging, leads to Toa Payoh fire
A 39-year-old woman named only as Ms Liu (transliterated from Mandarin) told Lianhe Zaobao that the flat belonged to her brother.When the fire broke out, her 70-year-old mother, 15-year-old niece and six-year-old nephew were at home.
She had left her phone at home when she went to work that morning, she said. Her mother was charging it in the bedroom when it suddenly emitted sparks and thick smoke, the elderly woman recalled.
