SINGAPORE — A fire at a Housing Board flat in Bedok North that claimed the lives of a toddler, her father and their flatmate was likely to have been s
was likely to have been started by a lit cigarette left behind on a cardboard box.
He had purportedly placed the cigarette on a cardboard box beside a recliner he sat in, before leaving the flat at Block 409, Bedok North Avenue 2 for work. The lead fire investigator on the case testified that it was possible that there had already been"some heat exchange" when the tip of the lighted cigarette, which was burning down, came into contact with the cardboard."They may not see the fire immediately," said the investigator."Sometimes you might see an orangey-bright lining, we call it incandescence. It will take time... we call this a smouldering process.
She is in a vegetative state and it is unlikely she will be a normal person again, said the Singapore Police Force's principal investigation officer on the case.
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