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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 ...
English: The old Bukit Timah Fire Station at 260 Upper Bukit Timah Road (junction of Upper Bukit Timah Road and Old Jurong Road), Singapore. Date 27 April 2011, 13:58
The fire occurred at 09:55 while employees were working inside the department store. The fire was the result of a short circuit due an overloaded electrical branch on the first floor. [4] An employee in the store saw wires on the ceiling catching fire and sparks shooting across "like a dynamite fuse". [5]
The street was named Club Street due to its abundance of Chinese clubs in early Singapore history. [1] Clubs such as the Chinese Weekly Entertainment Kee Lam Club, a Straits-Chinese club formed in 1891, Chui Lan Teng Club, mainly for Chinese businessman to socialise and the Ee Hoe Hean Club, an exclusive prestigious Chinese club in the 1920s are located at the street which leads to competitive ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Two large oil tankers were on fire on Friday after colliding in waters near Singapore, the world's biggest refuelling port, with two crew members airlifted to hospital and ...
Beverly Hills Supper Club fire: Southgate, Kentucky: United States 1977 165: 200 possibly electrical carpeting, wooden paneling Third-worst club fire in American history Infinity Disco fire Manhattan, New York United States 1979 0 0 "Club Patrons Routed By Fire in Building". The New York Times. 15 February 1979: possibly arson
Nine passengers were injured after an engine fire sent smoke into the cabin of an Air China jetliner landing in Singapore, prompting an evacuation of the aircraft. The Airbus A320 with 146 ...
An aerial view of utility vehicles parked near beachfront homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the L.A. region on Jan. 13, 2025 in Malibu, California.