Bedok Reservoir Road fire happened two days after Sengkang.
The firefighters found the front gate locked when they arrived at the fourth-storey flat.
He saw a couple and their three children – a two-year-old boy, and girls aged nine and 12 – huddling together as the fire raged in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Staff Sergeant Ahmed Haliim Khan, 33, was trying to calm down the frantic father and convince him to hand over his two-year-old son.The family was taken to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation. One of the parents also sustained minor burn injuries.
About 50 residents from the affected block were evacuated by the police and SCDF as a precautionary measure.
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