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The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) is a uniformed organisation in Singapore under the Ministry of Home Affairs that provides emergency services such as firefighting, technical rescue, and emergency medical services, and coordinates national civil defence programme.
Part of the DART unit, the Search Platoon (K-9 unit) of the SCDF trains and deploys dogs for Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) operations as well as for Fire Investigation (FI). SCDF's FI Unit will activate the FI dogs when they are needed at the fire ground. When activated, FI dogs are deployed to search for any presence of fire accelerants.
The SCDF Marine Division is a division of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) that is in-charge of marine fire and rescue operations in Singapore waters. Its duties include the marine firefighting and maritime search and rescue operations in collaboration with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
IC - Identity health, In charge or Identification Certificate/Card; ICBC - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; ICA - Immigration & Checkpoints Authority; ICS - International Community School of Singapore; IDA - Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore; IJC - Innova Junior College (now merged with Yishun Junior College to form Yishun ...
In 2012 the Singapore Civil Defence Force took over responsibility from the Maritime and Port Authority for fighting maritime fires. [3] In March 2013 the legacy fireboats Firefighter I and Firefighter II were modernized. [4] In May 2017 the SCDF Marine Division acquired two new fireboats, the Red Swordfish and the Blue Swordfish. [5]
SINGAPORE — One person died and two workers were injured following a fire at a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) bottling and distribution facility in Jurong on Friday (21 June) evening.
In Singapore conscripts are deployed as fire fighters when serving in the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). In Switzerland this mandatory fire service is common and required in most regions. In Austria and Germany compulsory fire services only exist when a volunteer fire department cannot be pursued due to a lack of personnel or other ...
The National Civil Defence Cadet Corps (NCDCC) is a youth national uniformed group formed in 2005.The creation of this uniformed group was initiated by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore in response to the need for the young leaders of tomorrow to have a firm pillar and grounding in Singapore's firm belief of Total Defence.