SINGAPORE, May 3 -- A twin blaze emergency unfolded in Punggol on the evening of May 1, when two separate fires broke out within an hour at the same Housing Board block, leaving six people including two firefighters hospitalised.

According to The Straits Times, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the first fire on the ninth floor of Block 223A Sumang Lane at about 6.50pm, followed by a second blaze on the fourth floor at around 7.40pm.

The initial fire, which involved discarded items along a common corridor, was extinguished using hose reels and resulted in no injuries. The second, far more serious fire-which involved the bedroom of a fourth‑floor flat-was also put out with hose reels, but not before ca...