SINGAPORE: After battling a fire on a ship anchored in Singapore’s southwest, a regular member of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) passed away early on Thursday, May 16. When the SCDF received word of the fire at around 11:30 a.m., personnel from its West Coast Marine Fire Station boarded the ship to start fighting the fire.
The ship’s engine room was emitting smoke when the firefighters got there. The SCDF said in a press release on Thursday afternoon that “during the operation, a regular officer who was a rota commander paired up with another firefighter,, and they were conducting firefighting together inside the smoke-logged engine room.”
“The rota commander was moving around the engine room with a thermal imager to detect other hot spots within the room while the firefighter was directing a water jet towards the source of the fire.”
The rota commander was discovered lying at the foot of a staircase that descended approximately 4 metres to a lower platform of the engine room by another team of firefighters who had entered the engine room to support the firefighting operation while it was still underway.
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