Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Fire Incident at 63 Robinson Road
At 1006 hrs, SCDF was alerted to a fire at the sixth
floor of a building located at 63 Robinson Road. Upon receiving the
notification, SCDF resources which included 2 Fire Engines, 4 Red
Rhinos, 1 Fire Bike, 1 Ambulance and 3 Support Appliances were
dispatched.
Upon arrival within 6 minutes, an office unit on the
sixth floor of the building was on fire. SCDF personnel immediately
donned breathing apparatus equipment and proceeded to the affected
unit to conduct internal fire-fighting operations. The unit
measuring about 30 by 20 metres was on fire. The occupants of the
building self evacuated prior to SCDF’s arrival.
The fire was brought under control within 30 minutes
using 2 water jets and the fire was confined within the affected
unit. Mitigating fires in a high-rise building requires the
fire-fighting operations to be conducted internally. About 20 fire
fighters were in the affected unit fighting the fire; they also
conducted search operations. A body was found in the affected unit
and pronounced dead by SCDF paramedics at scene.
An SCDF aerial appliance which was being deployed as a
supportive element in the fire-fighting operation, encountered
technical difficulty in extending the boom. The inability to deploy
the aerial appliance did not affect the fire fighting operations.
An aerial appliance is normally used in such situations for aerial
reconnaissance and to provide any fire fighting support, if
required. In this instance, it was not required because our fire
fighters were able to access the fire and mitigate internally.
Nonetheless, an additional aerial appliance was immediately
activated to the scene when the difficulty was encountered.
The cause of fire and the death is under
investigation.
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