FIRE at Yio Chu Kang Food center

[harrynkl]

 

[harrynkl]

 

[GarethNew]

Holy crap. What an aftermath.
You can almost feel the thermal energy by looking at the melted corpses of the furniture.

 

[SolBadGuy]

oh my... it is really unfortunate for such events to occur.. i wonder how the hawkers r going to make a living after this, esp those without insurance... even for those who did buy insurance, they might still face lots of difficulties..

 

[TerryOng]

It's real bad after looking at all the pictures. Very unfortunate thing to happen, the pictures are well taken I must say.

 

[wheek]

but still try by spraying water on it.

With all that cooking oil around, chances are the oil made the fire worse. And using water to put out an oil fire will only spread the fire further & faster.

Was quite surprised SCDF didn't send in foam tenders instead.

 

[psyber85]

With all that cooking oil around, chances are the oil made the fire worse. And using water to put out an oil fire will only spread the fire further & faster.

Was quite surprised SCDF didn't send in foam tenders instead.

foam tenders would be deployed for major serious incidents for example oil refineries...if water will be unable to put the fire under control..say in jurong island. moreover, usage of foam in civilian area would result in dirtying / contamination of public area. massive cleaning up would be needed after that

 

[wheek]

foam tenders would be deployed for major serious incidents for example oil refineries...if water will be unable to put the fire under control..say in jurong island. moreover, usage of foam in civilian area would result in dirtying / contamination of public area. massive cleaning up would be needed after that

True but water & oil don't mix. Everyone knows that. Spraying water on fire will cause it to spread faster. No wonder the papers reported eyewitnesses saying the fire spread damn fast.

 

[roadrunner_552]

the place look real bad

 

[LensCapOn]

True but water & oil don't mix. Everyone knows that. Spraying water on fire will cause it to spread faster. No wonder the papers reported eyewitnesses saying the fire spread damn fast.

Hi bro,

There wasn't a need for foam to fight the Yio Chu Kang fire. Take it from me. I was once a firefighter.

The amount of cooking oil and other domestic grease is very small. Trust me, it may seem to be a large amount to the lay person but in actual fact it is rather small and would have probably played a minor role in the spread of the fire. In the time it would take to activate and deploy the foam and all its necessary equipment, the firefighters on scene would have been able to deploy an overwhelming amount of water to put out the flames.

 

[LensCapOn]

The most likely cause why the fire spread so quickly would like be that the fire was a slow burning deep seated one that was unnoticed and allowed to develop. Once it reaches it optimum combustion temp, it would be so hot so as to ignite gases in ambient air.

The burning gas would in turn spread the fire to the large amount of Class A flammable within the market (timber,paper,plastics,joss sticks etc). As the fire now consumes the oxygen, it "sucks in " more air into the centre of the market where it becomes self sustaining and continue to radiat out massive amount of heat so long there's fuel to burn (all the stock in the market) The massive amount of heat generated by the core of the fire can reach temps where normal air ignites. These hot gases would be more responsible in the fast spread of the fire.

Just to give you a scale of how fast the temp can climb in these situation, it takes just eight minutes for home fire to reach critical temp for flashover to occur.

 

[blazer_workz]

Nobody thought of using the fire extinguisher place along the perimeter of the hawker?
Haaha..wat fire drill practise?? its all a flop..:bsmilie:

 

[harrynkl]

The most likely cause why the fire spread so quickly would like be that the fire was a slow burning deep seated one that was unnoticed and allowed to develop. Once it reaches it optimum combustion temp, it would be so hot so as to ignite gases in ambient air.

The burning gas would in turn spread the fire to the large amount of Class A flammable within the market (timber,paper,plastics,joss sticks etc). As the fire now consumes the oxygen, it "sucks in " more air into the centre of the market where it becomes self sustaining and continue to radiat out massive amount of heat so long there's fuel to burn (all the stock in the market) The massive amount of heat generated by the core of the fire can reach temps where normal air ignites. These hot gases would be more responsible in the fast spread of the fire.

Just to give you a scale of how fast the temp can climb in these situation, it takes just eight minutes for home fire to reach critical temp for flashover to occur.

thanks for the knowledge, in CS we learn something on fire too:thumbsup:

 

[wrx_sti_22b]

The most likely cause why the fire spread so quickly would like be that the fire was a slow burning deep seated one that was unnoticed and allowed to develop. Once it reaches it optimum combustion temp, it would be so hot so as to ignite gases in ambient air.

The burning gas would in turn spread the fire to the large amount of Class A flammable within the market (timber,paper,plastics,joss sticks etc). As the fire now consumes the oxygen, it "sucks in " more air into the centre of the market where it becomes self sustaining and continue to radiat out massive amount of heat so long there's fuel to burn (all the stock in the market) The massive amount of heat generated by the core of the fire can reach temps where normal air ignites. These hot gases would be more responsible in the fast spread of the fire.

Just to give you a scale of how fast the temp can climb in these situation, it takes just eight minutes for home fire to reach critical temp for flashover to occur.

Very good explanation... so knowlegable... :thumbsup:

 

[wheek]

Nobody thought of using the fire extinguisher place along the perimeter of the hawker?
Haaha..wat fire drill practise?? its all a flop..:bsmilie:

You can have all the drills in the world but as long as you haven't experienced a real one before, chances are you'll flip out, panic & run around like headless chickens.

But in the first place, do those extinguishers work? I've seen some extinguishers at certain places which are expired.

 

[muthusalami]

what a pity. i always have breakfast there every sunday. loved the carrot cake.

OT abit. haha Rashkae i think u live 2 floors above me. :bsmilie:

 

[harrynkl]

u which blk
maybe we can have a list of ppl living around here in amk

me 607

 

[andrewtansj]

wa... good reportage.... better then SPH...:bsmilie: