2 Traffic Police officers taken to hospital for smoke inhalation after vehicle catches fire on BKE
The fire was extinguished by firefighters with a water jet.
On August 21, two Traffic Police officers were hospitalized due to smoke inhalation after their vehicle caught fire on the Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) near Woodlands, Singapore. The incident occurred around 12:10 am at the slip road leading to SLE. According to both the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), the officers were on patrol when they noticed smoke emanating from the vehicle's engine compartment.
Immediately, they evacuated the vehicle. Two of the officers, along with a member of the public, attempted to extinguish the fire before SCDF firefighters arrived and used a water jet to put out the blaze.
The officers were taken to Singapore General Hospital for treatment, as they showed signs of smoke inhalation. In a video shared on Facebook, a vehicle can be seen engulfed in flames on the left side of the road bend. There were no other vehicles on that particular road at the time. Subsequently, several firefighters can be seen in the video attempting to control the fire, with a thick plume of smoke rising from the burning vehicle.
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