Bukit Ho Swee Fire, Singapore, 1961
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- Work cat.: Bukit Ho Swee fire, 25 May 1961 [VR] 1988.
- Loh, Kah Seng. The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore, 2008.
- Singapore Infopedia WWW site, Dec. 16, 2012(On 25 May 1961, the Bukit Ho Swee fire devastated an area of 60 a. and rendered about 16,000 persons homeless; the biggest ever fire in the history of Singapore, broke out at about 3:30 pm at a squatter district along the hillside of Kampong Tiong Bahru)
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The Bukit Ho Swee fire was a conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961. This fire resulted in 4 deaths and injured another 54. It also destroyed more than 2,800 houses around the Bukit Ho Swee area, leaving around 16,000 people homeless. The cause of this conflagration was never established. The Bukit Ho Swee fire was the biggest outbreak of fire in Singapore's history. The fire was a pivotal point in Singapore's contemporary history. The scale of the destruction sparked an emergency project to swiftly construct accommodation and resettle the people affected by the disaster. This first public housing project, led by the newly formed Housing and Development Board (HDB), would eventually lead the way to the development of national public housing in future decades.
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