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The Bukit Ho Swee fire [a] was a conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961. This fire resulted in 4 deaths and injured another 54. It also destroyed more than 2,800 houses around the Bukit Ho Swee area, leaving around 16,000 people homeless. The cause of this conflagration was never ...
A major fire, the Bukit Ho Swee Fire, broke out on 25 May 1961 and the wooden huts were completely destroyed. Unlike previous kampong fires, the inferno managed to spread across two roads, and destroying the homes of nearly 16,000 people. The scale of this fire far surmounted all previous fires.
25 May – The Bukit Ho Swee Fire kills 4 people and destroys 2,200 attap houses. [4] 27 May – Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaya, proposes a merger between Singapore, Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei (which pulled out last minute due to the Brunei Revolt). [5] [6]
Bukit Ho Swee is a place in Singapore which is located near Jalan Bukit Ho Swee. It was once an unplanned self-built township of about 20,000, though this was destroyed by the Bukit Ho Swee Fire, which broke out on 25 May 1961. It is now a residential area with little remains of its chaotic past.
1961 – Bukit Ho Swee fire, flames erupt in a squatter settlement in Singapore, making 16,000 homeless. 1961 – Brentwood-Bel Air fire in Los Angeles, burned 6,090 acres (24.6 km 2) and destroyed 484 homes. [52]
The HDB also continued the SIT's efforts in building emergency flats in Tiong Bahru, which were mostly used to rehouse people displaced by the Bukit Ho Swee fire in May 1961. After the fire, the HDB focused its efforts on Bukit Ho Swee's redevelopment, rapidly designing and constructing a public housing estate on the fire's site, with people ...
Pages in category "1961 in Singapore" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Bukit Ho Swee fire; K. Kidnapping Act (Singapore) W. Women's Charter
1961: 25 May: The Bukit Ho Swee Fire kills four people and destroys 2,200 attap houses. [41] 27 May: Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaya, proposes a merger between Singapore, Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak. 1962: 1 September: A referendum is held in Singapore to vote on merger with Malaysia. 1963: 2 February