Housewife rushed to save blind husband from Telok Blangah fire

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As some 50 residents rushed to evacuate from a Housing Board block in Telok Blangah after a fire broke out in one of the flats on Wednesday (Aug 3), Madam Doreen Ong, 73, headed towards the lift instead to save her husband who is blind. The housewife was returning...

No one was injured and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

In a Facebook post, West Coast GRC MP Rachel Ong said that she learnt of the fire from residents slightly before noon. When The Straits Times arrived at the scene at 3pm, most of the residents - except for those living on the affected floor - had returned to their homes. Mr Ter Keng Piew, 67, who lives in the flat opposite, said that his wife, 66, had heard an explosion earlier in the morning and smelled something burning.

 

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