Amid a raging inferno in their flat, a man jumped from the window to escape, while his wife reportedly threw their son to safety. The fire broke out on Friday (Aug 16) at around 12.50am in the second floor unit of Block 313 Hougang Avenue 5. An eyewitness told Shin Min Daily News that he saw ambulances and fire trucks...
About 30 people from the neighbouring units were evacuated by the police as a precautionary measure.Amid a raging inferno in their flat, a man jumped from the window to escape, while his wife reportedly threw their son to safety.
A resident, who declined to be named, said that he rushed downstairs from the seventh floor after hearing shouts of "fire, fire".The resident said that the injured man had jumped out from the second-floor kitchen window to escape the flames and was heard shouting, "there's people still in the house".
In a Facebook post shared later that day, the SCDF said that firefighters from Sengkang Fire Station and Paya Lebar Fire Station responded to a fire in Hougang. The fire was later extinguished with a water jet. The entire living room was damaged and the rest of the unit sustained heat and soot damage.
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