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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.
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.
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 ).
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.
The Bukit Ho Swee estate was used to rehouse other kampong residents displaced by fires or development schemes, paving the way for further urban renewal and resettlement schemes in the Central Area. [25] By 1965, more than 50,000 flats had been constructed and 23% of Singapore's population lived in public housing. [26]
A plane flies overhead five days after a fighter jet crashed and exploded in a Midwest City neighborhood on Aug. 25, 1961. The burned out shell of the Tuttle family house is shown, where a mother ...
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]