SINGAPORE — Bukit Batok Member of Parliament Murali Pillai has apologised over problems with hose reels during a recent flat fire, and said that the town council was taking disciplinary action ...

Engine 55 is a 2011 KME Predator Panther 2,000 gpm pump that is equipped with nine preconnected hand lines together with a 750-gallon water tank and three master stream appliances.

Kids enjoy playing with water, especially when the weather's hot. But a family may be in hot water after they were filmed misusing a fire hose reel at a multi-storey carpark in Ang Mo Kio on July 18.

The fire service is investigating a failure of water supply to a hose reel during a blaze that killed a 23-year-old woman in a Hong Kong high-rise early on Thursday.