Infant taken to hospital after Jurong East flat fire, two cats rescued

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'This was the scariest thing I've ever experienced,' said Mr Amirul Haidy Azlee, whose kitchen caught fire.

Mr Amirul Haidy Azlee, 26, woke up to the smell of something burning on Monday morning and saw white fumes coming out of the oven in his kitchen.

"Everything looked okay so I went to take a shower. But soon after, I saw black smoke seeping into the toilet," said Mr Amirul, who lives in a fifth-storey unit in Block 310 at Jurong East Street 32.He tried to put out the fire but the smoke was too dense. "This was the scariest thing I've ever experienced... It was even more frightening than being in a motorcycle accident because my family is involved," he said.

"Firefighters from Jurong Fire Station extinguished the fire using a water jet and a compressed air foam backpack," it said.The two cats rescued were given oxygen by firefighters who were trained as emergency medical technicians."I wanted to save my cats but I didn't know where they were when the fire broke out. I could only ask the firefighters to help save them," he added.

 

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