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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 ...
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.
The name Bukit Ho Swee derives from both Malay and Hokkien: Bukit is Malay for hill, and Ho Swee commemorates Tay Ho Swee (鄭 河 水; Tēⁿ Hô-súi) (1834–1903), an influential Chinese opium and spirit farmer, timber merchant and ship owner. [2] He was also the son of Tay Han Leong, the first opium and spirit dealer in Singapore. [2]
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]
In May 1961, the Bukit Ho Swee Fire broke out and some 16,000 people became homeless. Under Lim's guidance, the HDB took four years to complete the relocation and reconstruction of the lost housing, and 1,200 housing flats were made available to those who lost their homes in the fire. The housing project used standardised architectural designs.
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]
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