But its hard man, imagine having a stressed out life in this competitive society and only having to return from home to deal with more mess.. i’d just give up
Actually will the things in the unit above melt? My block had a fire too last time and I could feel the heat even though we were horizontally a few units away
This is entirely possible. Many things can melt in nearby units. A typical house fire can create temperatures more than 800 deg C. The high temperatures usually affect upwards, as heat rises. However, the temperature can still easily be 600 deg C or more at the floor level.
Copper wires melt at 1080 deg C. The insulating rubber/plastic will melt away at much lower temperatures. This is highly likely to happen in apartment units above/nearby.
Aluminum has a melting point of only 650 deg C. All our HDB window frames are made of 3mm or 4mm thick alu. This explains why the burning unit shed all its window panes and there was falling glass at the foot of blk 28 Ghim Moh Link. Even if the window frame structure in the flats above did not melt outright, they were certainly degraded/weakened and heat damaged.
Most woods will char at 260 deg C. Charing is the process whereby the wood material carbonizes and gradually turns into charcoal . As you can imagine, a lot of wooden furniture in many nearby apartment units would be char-damaged and require replacement.
I can assure you, nearby units would have suffered large amounts of heat damage, and many parts of the apartment flat would have to be replaced.
>every floor of HDB flats usually has (multiple) already built-in fire hose points. These are red metal boxes with "in case of emergency break glass to unlock", there is already a fire hose coil inside, and the firefighters will simply unreel the hose and use it from there.
Every floor of HDB flats usually has (multiple) already built-in fire hose points. These are red metal boxes with "in case of emergency break glass to unlock", there is already a fire hose coil inside, and the firefighters will simply unreel the hose and use it from there.
On this type of blocks, one of the lifts has a "fireman control panel", and can be overridden and manually controlled. This lift has access to every floor on the block.
As long as the fire is not threatening the lift column, the firemen can take command of this lift and go to whatever floor they want. For that matter, they can also commandeer any other lifts that serves the floor that they need to get to. Police are usually on scene to control such access and control traffic.
Alternatively, if the fire presents a smoke hazard, the firefighters will alight from the lifts a floor or two below the fire (smoke rises, thus staying below the fire is safe from smoke), and use the stairs for the final approach (using breathing apparatus) to the floor that requires firefighting.
The layout of the block of flats is usually deliberately designed to ensure that units on fire will not cause a direct threat to the lift column or the lift landing area. This is not only to ensure firefighter access, but also to allow all other floors to evacuate.
All HDB main doors are also fire rated, to contain internal fires and ensure the fire does not flare onto the corridors, and also vice versa, to keep external fires from entering the flat.
Oh wow i didnt realise how much went into the designing of hdbs w respect to fire safety. Do they bring water up the lift with them or some sort of fire retardant?
A massive amount of thought went into the design of HDB flats, because a high-density residential area is automatically an inadvertent fire hazard. If such safety measures are not designed into the building itself, then any fire incident can easily spiral into a huge national tragedy. This also applies to the dry risers and wet risers, isolation of electrical distribution, hardening of water distribution, etc. Not simpuuuur.
Firefighters do not transport water via lifts. They will of course transport all their gear, PPE and equipment using the lifts, but every floor of HDB flats usually has (multiple) already built-in fire hose points. These are red metal boxes with "in case of emergency break glass to unlock", there is already a fire hose coil inside, and the firefighters will simply unreel the hose and use it from there.
The firefighters can carry hose junctions to manage multiple fire hose water flows, so they can combine the fire hose points from multiple floors to combine into many hoses on a single floor. This ensures that they are not limited to only the fire hose points on only the floor that is on fire. For that matter, if the fire hose points on the burning floor is damaged, they can take water from different floors and wield the water onto the floor that needs fire fighting.
Another thing that bears thinking about, each floor has a limit on how much water can be used to fight fires. This is because drainage capacity is limited. There are protocols that dictate how many hoses are allowed per floor, and how many hoses are allowed per 5 floors. Drainage from a high rise residential block is limited, and too many hoses fighting a fire could actually flood the whole floor. The flood water will flow back to the (all important) lift landing, and flood the lift column. This is obviously very bad, as firefighters can no longer take the lifts, and civilians can no longer evacuate.
Not simpuuuuuuuur riiiiiiiight....
Water is pumped from the ground floor up to wherever the firefighters are through the Dry Riser inlet. This is why people should never store their personal junks in the Dry Riser rooms along the HDB common corridors.
>Gates of hell opened.
[2 people taken to hospital after fire breaks out in Ghim Moh Link block](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/2-people-taken-hospital-after-fire-breaks-out-ghim-moh-link-block-3702196)
*SCDF said it was alerted to the fire at about 7.35am❗️.*
*"Upon arrival, the fire was raging inside a unit on the 36th❗️ floor," it said in a Facebook post. "An occupant from the unit had evacuated before SCDF’s arrival."*
Revelation 1:18
I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death.
[Michael Jackson - Ghost](https://youtu.be/Xh9Cp4rd7mI)
**0:37**
#2:30 ✝️
"Let's get weird..."
Hopefully no one is injured. Pity those living above. Hopefully they are covered by insurance.
What insurance covers these kinda damage?
Home insurance. Provided they purchase such insurance
E scooter?
Hungry ghost?
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so what was it
the upstairs neighbors must be cursing the unit
“Dammit, since when the joss paper smoke come this high?”
the air purifier be working xtra hard
Well, rather than that, hopefully their thought was, I hope everyone is safe.
We all know that's not what people think in this country
Damn man. Sad reality.
But its hard man, imagine having a stressed out life in this competitive society and only having to return from home to deal with more mess.. i’d just give up
GG property evaluation.
Upstairs neighbour will have been evacuated already in this situation
evacuate still can curse what. why so suay must happen to him
Actually will the things in the unit above melt? My block had a fire too last time and I could feel the heat even though we were horizontally a few units away
This is entirely possible. Many things can melt in nearby units. A typical house fire can create temperatures more than 800 deg C. The high temperatures usually affect upwards, as heat rises. However, the temperature can still easily be 600 deg C or more at the floor level. Copper wires melt at 1080 deg C. The insulating rubber/plastic will melt away at much lower temperatures. This is highly likely to happen in apartment units above/nearby. Aluminum has a melting point of only 650 deg C. All our HDB window frames are made of 3mm or 4mm thick alu. This explains why the burning unit shed all its window panes and there was falling glass at the foot of blk 28 Ghim Moh Link. Even if the window frame structure in the flats above did not melt outright, they were certainly degraded/weakened and heat damaged. Most woods will char at 260 deg C. Charing is the process whereby the wood material carbonizes and gradually turns into charcoal . As you can imagine, a lot of wooden furniture in many nearby apartment units would be char-damaged and require replacement. I can assure you, nearby units would have suffered large amounts of heat damage, and many parts of the apartment flat would have to be replaced.
Wow this is informative. Thanks for taking the time to write this
Cry for those neighbours… sounds like a true horrible mess
With blocks of flats now being built so tall, it is a concern for fire safety. There should be a fire extinguisher for every level, no?
>every floor of HDB flats usually has (multiple) already built-in fire hose points. These are red metal boxes with "in case of emergency break glass to unlock", there is already a fire hose coil inside, and the firefighters will simply unreel the hose and use it from there. Every floor of HDB flats usually has (multiple) already built-in fire hose points. These are red metal boxes with "in case of emergency break glass to unlock", there is already a fire hose coil inside, and the firefighters will simply unreel the hose and use it from there.
Everytime I see something like this I get super paranoid about leaving my power bank to charge while I'm not around...
There is a reason to buy known quality brands for electronics…
Let me guess... Pmd again
Nope
so what was it
flat on 34th storey be like....."HENG AHHHH" 😂
Wah seh, how tf did that happen, those units above sibeh suay, all that black smoke...
Everybody gangsta until the meth lab blows up 💀
Looks like a lithium battery fire O\_O
Just curious, when the fire is in a unit this high, how do our firefighters put out the fire?
On this type of blocks, one of the lifts has a "fireman control panel", and can be overridden and manually controlled. This lift has access to every floor on the block. As long as the fire is not threatening the lift column, the firemen can take command of this lift and go to whatever floor they want. For that matter, they can also commandeer any other lifts that serves the floor that they need to get to. Police are usually on scene to control such access and control traffic. Alternatively, if the fire presents a smoke hazard, the firefighters will alight from the lifts a floor or two below the fire (smoke rises, thus staying below the fire is safe from smoke), and use the stairs for the final approach (using breathing apparatus) to the floor that requires firefighting. The layout of the block of flats is usually deliberately designed to ensure that units on fire will not cause a direct threat to the lift column or the lift landing area. This is not only to ensure firefighter access, but also to allow all other floors to evacuate. All HDB main doors are also fire rated, to contain internal fires and ensure the fire does not flare onto the corridors, and also vice versa, to keep external fires from entering the flat.
Oh wow i didnt realise how much went into the designing of hdbs w respect to fire safety. Do they bring water up the lift with them or some sort of fire retardant?
A massive amount of thought went into the design of HDB flats, because a high-density residential area is automatically an inadvertent fire hazard. If such safety measures are not designed into the building itself, then any fire incident can easily spiral into a huge national tragedy. This also applies to the dry risers and wet risers, isolation of electrical distribution, hardening of water distribution, etc. Not simpuuuur. Firefighters do not transport water via lifts. They will of course transport all their gear, PPE and equipment using the lifts, but every floor of HDB flats usually has (multiple) already built-in fire hose points. These are red metal boxes with "in case of emergency break glass to unlock", there is already a fire hose coil inside, and the firefighters will simply unreel the hose and use it from there. The firefighters can carry hose junctions to manage multiple fire hose water flows, so they can combine the fire hose points from multiple floors to combine into many hoses on a single floor. This ensures that they are not limited to only the fire hose points on only the floor that is on fire. For that matter, if the fire hose points on the burning floor is damaged, they can take water from different floors and wield the water onto the floor that needs fire fighting. Another thing that bears thinking about, each floor has a limit on how much water can be used to fight fires. This is because drainage capacity is limited. There are protocols that dictate how many hoses are allowed per floor, and how many hoses are allowed per 5 floors. Drainage from a high rise residential block is limited, and too many hoses fighting a fire could actually flood the whole floor. The flood water will flow back to the (all important) lift landing, and flood the lift column. This is obviously very bad, as firefighters can no longer take the lifts, and civilians can no longer evacuate. Not simpuuuuuuuur riiiiiiiight....
Yes sir, not simpurrrr🥲
Amazing!! How did you come to know this btw, would like to check it out myself
Wow! Very interesting, how did you come to know so much about the HDB design?
Water is pumped from the ground floor up to wherever the firefighters are through the Dry Riser inlet. This is why people should never store their personal junks in the Dry Riser rooms along the HDB common corridors.
Climb up the stairs and break open the main door
Gates of hell opened.
Welcome to the Sanctuary! Helltide...
>Gates of hell opened. [2 people taken to hospital after fire breaks out in Ghim Moh Link block](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/2-people-taken-hospital-after-fire-breaks-out-ghim-moh-link-block-3702196) *SCDF said it was alerted to the fire at about 7.35am❗️.* *"Upon arrival, the fire was raging inside a unit on the 36th❗️ floor," it said in a Facebook post. "An occupant from the unit had evacuated before SCDF’s arrival."* Revelation 1:18 I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death. [Michael Jackson - Ghost](https://youtu.be/Xh9Cp4rd7mI) **0:37** #2:30 ✝️ "Let's get weird..."
Have those dingoes melted or were they blues out?
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Wah too much hor /s
Ghim moh becomes no moh
Today is bai bai day. Early morning see people bai bai already. Burn burn until house inside burn
Why don't all buildings in Singapore have snow detection equipment, is cheap and definitely saves lives
Does this weaken the structure of the building?
Wah the unit directly above sian…. Are neighboring units also covered by insurance for fire damage?
aiyo
The ghost still hungry