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BUKIT HO SWEE fire
The Bukit Ho Swee Fire (Chinese: 河水山大火) is a fire that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, on May 25, 1961 at 3.20 p.m. Four people died, eighty-five were injured, and 16,000 were made homeless and more than 2,200 attap houses were destroyed...Whether the fire was due to arson or accident remains a mystery today.
The fames zig-zagged their way across Tiong Bahru Road to Beo Lane, before strong winds led them to Havelock Road and the Delta area. An unprecedented 22 fre engines battled the inferno, but at 8pm it was still going strong.
Oil and petrol containers in nearby godowns were heard exploding at regular intervals.
By the time it was put out, more than 100 acres of squatter settlement on the higher part of the bukit (hill) had been razed, nearly 3,000 homes destroyed,
16,000 people were homeless and four had died.
Eyewitnesses told of people stumbling downhill clutching meagre belongings, groups sitting dazed by the roadside and the occasional desperate efort to rescue items from a blazing home.
“I cheered when the last village in Singapore was demolished in 1980,” he said. “Today there is not a single village in Singapore.”
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The Bukit Ho Swee Fire (Chinese: 河水山大火) is a fire that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, on May 25, 1961 at 3.20 p.m. Four people died, eighty-five were injured, and 16,000 were made homeless and more than 2,200 attap houses were destroyed...Whether the fire was due to arson or accident remains a mystery today.
The fames zig-zagged their way across Tiong Bahru Road to Beo Lane, before strong winds led them to Havelock Road and the Delta area. An unprecedented 22 fre engines battled the inferno, but at 8pm it was still going strong.
Oil and petrol containers in nearby godowns were heard exploding at regular intervals.
By the time it was put out, more than 100 acres of squatter settlement on the higher part of the bukit (hill) had been razed, nearly 3,000 homes destroyed,
16,000 people were homeless and four had died.
Eyewitnesses told of people stumbling downhill clutching meagre belongings, groups sitting dazed by the roadside and the occasional desperate efort to rescue items from a blazing home.
“I cheered when the last village in Singapore was demolished in 1980,” he said. “Today there is not a single village in Singapore.”
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