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A middle-aged man had retired early for the night last Thursday (April 8) when his children awoke him sometime after 8pm saying there was smoke coming out of their neighbour's house. «They said their house was smoking, so I rushed out to take a look,&r'Their house was smoking': Man puts out fire in neighbour's flat after they left the stove on
A middle-aged man had retired early for the night last Thursday (April 8) when his children awoke him sometime after 8pm saying there was smoke coming out of their neighbour's house. «They said their house was smoking, so I rushed out to take a look,» he told Lianhe Wanbao. Seeing white smoke wafting out of the Tampines flat's kitchen, and that the family that stayed there was nowhere to be found, he took matters into his own hands. The 54-year-old climbed in through their window — which was left open — and ran into the kitchen to switch the gas stove off, preventing a fire from breaking out. In response to AsiaOne's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said the fire involved a pan in the kitchen, though the cause of the fire is still under investigation. According to neighbours, the couple that lives in that unit were often careless. Read more