Ambulance, 7 vehicles caught fire at carpark
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SINGAPORE: An ambulance attending to a call for medical help caught fire and caused seven other vehicles in the same carpark to go up in flames.
The incident happened at about 3pm on Saturday at the carpark of Block 120 in Geylang East Central.
Eyewitness, Ng Yiwei, told Channel NewsAsia that she was at home with her sister when she heard the sounds of explosion and saw smoke from the window outside her flat on the sixth floor.
The 22-year-old National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate said: "Initially the fire was very scary. The smoke was so thick you can't tell that it came from the ambulance." It engulfed the ambulance and the fire then spread to a nearby lorry, causing the front of the vehicle to explode. The fire then moved on to two more cars and another lorry. There was an explosion at each vehicle.'
Her sister, Ng Yisi, who is also a NUS undergraduate, said: "The smoke was very thick and very scary. Initially we thought it was the haze from Indonesia, but when we looked down the window it was actually from the ambulance."
Police said no one was injured.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said the ambulance was attending to a case at Block 120.
It said the ambulance was stationary at the carpark, with its beacon lights on.
No one in the ambulance.
The ambulance crew was with the patient, an elderly Chinese woman, at the void deck, which was about 20 metres away.
Another ambulance sent the patient to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
The fire was put out within five minutes.
The cause of fire is under investigation.
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SCDF ambulance explodes in Geylang, burns nearby vehicles
A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) ambulance responding to a call for medical help suddenly went up in flames while parked in an open-air carpark on Saturday afternoon.
Seven vehicles near it were affected; four of them were partially burnt.
No one was in the stationary vehicle at the time of the blaze as the ambulance crew was attending to an elderly woman at the void deck of Block 120, Geylang East Central, said the SCDF in a press release on Saturday.
The incident happened at about 3.10pm. The statement said the vehicle had its beacon lights on. Witnesses said the vehicle had exploded and burst into flames, sending columns of thick, black smoke into the air.
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Vehicle No.: QX252L Vehicle Type: E63 - Road Tax Exempted Ambulance Vehicle Attachment 1: Emergency Vehicle Scheme: Marked (Government) Vehicle Make: MERCEDES BENZ Vehicle Model: 515CDI/3665 Chassis No.: WDB9061532N334227 Engine No.: 64698651354123 Engine Capacity: 2148 cc Maximum Laden Weight: 5050 kg Unladen Weight: 3600 kg Year Of Manufacture: 2007 Original Registration Date: 26 Mar 2008 A Toyota lorry, Toyota Altis and Renault were also destroyed
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are the ambulances "maintained" by a certain huge corporation which "specialises" in vehicular maintenance?
if so, it's not surprising.. one of the vans in my department was sent there for a routine service, came back in worse condition than before... and the drivers were complaining that one of the gears could not be engaged after it came back..
the van was also certified "roadworthy" by them
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I'm curious on the cause of the fire...
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wats the diff between "caught fire" and "explode"?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
wats the diff between "caught fire" and "explode"?
got difference...last time I working in SGH, got patient tell me they wan complain becoz the equipment in the operating theatre "explode"... when I investigate, we found out it caught fire instead... becoz if the machine "explode", then likely the patient wont be alive with just a burn on the lower thigh/butt...