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Electrical room fire disrupts power supply in Singapore's Chinatown

Sept 2025Published 7 Sept 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor

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Where
43 Bukit Pasoh Road, Chinatown, Singapore
Operator
SP Group
What
Electrical room fire on ground floor
Injuries
None reported
Cause
Under investigation

Companies named in the reporting of this entry (being named is not a finding of fault): SP Group

What happened

On 1 September (date as reported, year not fully confirmed due to a discrepancy in source dating), the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted at about 12.20pm to a fire at 43 Bukit Pasoh Road, the address of the Ee Hoe Hean Club in Chinatown. The blaze involved electrical equipment in an electrical room on the ground floor and was extinguished using a dry powder fire extinguisher. No injuries were reported.

National grid operator SP Group said it was alerted to an electricity supply disruption to premises in the area at 12.26pm and deployed officers immediately. Power was progressively restored from 1.15pm and fully restored by 5.25pm. The disruption affected the club and some nearby businesses. Both SCDF and SP Group said the cause of the fire remained under investigation.

Contributing factors

Not reported; the cause of the electrical equipment fire was still under investigation at the time of reporting.

Lessons learned

  1. Dry powder extinguishers can stop small electrical fires in ground floor rooms before they spread, so operators must keep the right type ready and train staff to use them at once.
  2. Grid operators that send teams within minutes of a fault alert can limit outage length, so they should keep rapid response crews on standby for urban substations.
  3. Public updates on restoration times reduce business losses even when the cause is unknown, so operators should issue them as soon as power returns.

More lessons on fire suppression and firefighting, outages, backup supply and restoration, emergency response and public communication, from every incident on the register.

Not yet known

  • Exact cause of the electrical fire
  • Type and age of the equipment
  • Cost of the supply disruption

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Source

msn.com

Published 2026-09-07. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.

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