{"id":118607,"date":"2020-09-11T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hdb-estates-to-have-designated-signage-for-entry-and-exit-points\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:03:56","slug":"hdb-estates-to-have-designated-signage-for-entry-and-exit-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hdb-estates-to-have-designated-signage-for-entry-and-exit-points\/","title":{"rendered":"HDB estates to have designated signage for entry and exit points"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis comes after a firefighting vehicle was unable to access The Peak @ Toa Payoh after a fire had broken out at the HDB flat in August.
\nHousing and Development Board (HDB) estates without emergency entry and exit point signages will soon have such signs, reported The Straits Times.
\nThis comes after a firefighting vehicle was unable to access The Peak @ Toa Payoh after a fire had broken out at the HDB flat in August. The vehicle had accidentally entered via a designated exit point, which did not have adequate turning radius and clearance. As the estate was built in 2012, it did not have entry and exit signages, since the Fire Code mandating this was only updated in 2018.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nThe early morning fire on 29 August at Block 138C, Lorong 1A Toa Payoh saw three people taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and burn injuries. Around 300 people were also evacuated.
\nThe fire involved contents in a unit on the 20th floor, and spread to the 21st floor.
\nThe Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) revealed that the other 10 vehicles deployed to respond to the fire reached the scene without any difficulty via the designated emergency vehicle entrance.
\nSCDF shared that it is working with the HDB to place signages for designated entry and exit points at The Peak as well as other HDB developments that do not have yet such signages.
\nSCDF further revealed that the block\u2019s wet riser was not functioning during the fire.
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\n\u201cAs a general practice, SCDF simultaneously deploys the use of hose reels and water jets (connected to wet risers) in firefighting operations,\u201d it said as quoted by The Straits Times.
\nWith the wet riser malfunctioning, SCDF explained that its firefighters \u201ceffectively extinguished\u201d the fire using hose reels.
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\nWhile SCDF had ordered the Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council to fix the issue on the block\u2019s wet riser, it will still investigate the cause of malfunction and \u201ctake further enforcement action against the responsible parties where necessary\u201d.
\nMeanwhile, the town council said the wet riser system was inspected by its fire protection contractor after the 29 August fire, and found them to be \u201cworking fine\u201d.
\nIn fact, the wet riser system was last checked by the contractors three days before the fire on 26 August, and was found to be \u201cin order\u201d.
\nWith this, an engineer had been engaged by the town council to investigate why the wet riser \u201chad no water\u201d during the fire.
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\nVictor Kang, Digital Content Specialist at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email\u00a0victorkang@propertyguru.com.sg
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\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market
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