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Fire breaks out at Singapore's Golden Mile Tower; initial findings show blaze did not involve EVs​

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Fire breaks out at Singapore's Golden Mile Tower; initial findings show blaze did not involve EVs​

Photos of a fire that broke out at Golden Mile Tower in Singapore on Aug 31, 2024.

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31 Aug 2024 02:11PM (Updated: 31 Aug 2024 04:36PM)
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SINGAPORE: A fire, which broke out in Golden Mile Tower - an office and shopping complex along Beach Road, on Saturday (Aug 31) - has been put out.
In a Facebook post at 2.30pm, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) described the incident as a "multi-vehicle fire". It was alerted to the fire at around 12.50pm.
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"The fire, which involved multiple cars at the car park, was extinguished by SCDF using two water jets," said SCDF, adding that about 45 people were evacuated by the police and SCDF.

Photos of vehicles after fire was extinguished at Golden Mile Tower in Singapore on Aug 31, 2024. (Photo: CNA/Koh Wan Ting)

A close-up view of a vehicle that was burnt during a fire that broke out at Golden Mile Tower on Saturday, Aug 31, 2024. (Photo: CNA/Marcus Ramos)

Officers from Singapore Police Force (SPF) inspecting the burnt vehicles in the car park where a fire broke out at Golden Mile Tower on Saturday, Aug 31, 2024. (Photo: CNA/Marcus Ramos)
Three people suffered from smoke inhalation, but they declined to be sent to the hospital, said SCDF.
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Preliminary findings indicate that the cars involved in the fire were not electric vehicles, according to SCDF, which is investigating the cause of the fire.
Fire investigators were still at the car park on level 6 at around 4pm, with police telling CNA that the level was "not cleared yet".

A CNA reporter observed that tenants from levels one to five were allowed back into the building at around 3.45pm and that there was some flooding in the basement and water dripping from the ceiling at level two.

Flooding in the basement level of Golden Mile Tower. A fire had broke out in a carpark on an upper floor earlier on Aug 31, 2024. (Photo: CNA/Koh Wan Ting)

Workers cleaning the basement as there was flooding after a fire broke out at Golden Mile Tower on Saturday, Aug 31, 2024. (Photo: CNA/Marcus Ramos)
Earlier at 2.30pm, a CNA reporter spotted at least nine SCDF vehicles parked outside Golden Mile Tower. A few firefighters were seen walking out of the building.

 

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EVs are far less likely to catch fire compared to ICE cars.

Mythbusting the world of EVs: are electric cars susceptible to catching fire?​

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One of the biggest myths around electric car ownership, debunked

MYTH: "EVs always catch fire"​

Last summer a car park at Luton airport went up in an inferno. Social media speculation, authoritative as ever, pinned it to an EV fire. Thanks social media for your contribution. The fire brigade later said it was a diesel car.

Now, an EV battery fire is bad news. It burns hot and is hard to extinguish. Indeed it can ignite again after several days. But burning isn’t a battery’s sole purpose in life. Whereas a combustion car carries a tankful of stuff whose one job is catching rapidly on fire. And it can do so when you don’t want it to.


Electric car fires are very rare. They might stem from a fault or crash, but no official crash test ever caused one. EVs are extensively developed and subject to the discipline of recalls. Electric scooter fires are far more common since they’re mostly uncertified – because they’re illegal.

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) reported 23 fires in 611,000 EVs during 2022, or 0.004 per cent in a year, which makes it 20 times less likely to happen than ICE car fires, which burned 3,400 times in 4.4 million cars, or 0.08 per cent. MSB has also recently proven a new way to extinguish battery fires fast.

 

[k1976]

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