Please be informed that the weekly Saturday Fire Station Open House will be suspended on 18 Jan 2025SCDF will be reaching out to those who have already made a booking.

W.e.f. 1 Apr 2024 onwards, refresher training for Fire Station Emergency Medical Technicians will be enhanced and the In Camp Training period will be extended from 19 to 23 days. Please check with your Deputy Commander Fire Station or unit for more info.

W.e.f. 1 Jul 2024, SCDF will change its sender ID for NS Mobilisation matters from “91449746” to “80709995”. This follows the gov.sg SMS Sender ID announcement on 13 Jun 2024 and aims to help recipients recognise and authenticate SMSes from SCDF.

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20 February 2024
Emergency Medical Services, Fire and Enforcement Statistics 2023
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) responded to 246,832 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) calls in 2023. This was a 3.9% decrease compared to 2022, when there was a spike in EMS demand due to the multiple waves of COVID-19 variants. However, overall EMS demand in 2023 remained high, with an average of 676 EMS calls daily, which was 30% higher than in 2019 (pre-pandemic).
 

The overall number of fires increased by 8.6% to 1,954 cases in 2023. While the number of fires at non-residential remises fell by 6.9%, the number of fires at residential and non-building premises rose by 3.7% and 34.9% respectively.
Fires involving Active Mobility Devices (AMDs) increased by 31% compared to 2022.
 

SCDF stepped up the number of fire safety enforcement checks in 2023. We conducted 15,044 fire safety enforcement checks and issued 1,466 Notices of Offence (NOOs) and 2,734 Fire Hazard Abatement Notices (FHANs).

 

Click on the link to read the full details of Fire, EMS and Fire Safety Enforcement Statistics 2023.

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