A fire broke out on a 2nd storey flat at Block 512A Yishun Street 51 on Sunday and a man in his 30s jumped out of his flat to escape the fire.
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According to Straits Times, a Bangladeshi cleaner, Mr Hamid, tried to break the man’s fall with a discarded sofa – he had heard the man screaming for help.
Hamid said that the man was dangling outside his window and so he did whatever he could to help the man, but by the time he moved the sofa under the window, the man had already fallen.
The fire took place on 19 December at around 1.50pm, and the SCDF said that the fire involved the contents of a kitchen.
About 50 people were evacuated from their homes before the SCDF arrived.
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The injured man was later sent to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.