On Sunday (Oct 23) afternoon, a group of Hindu devotees participating in the fire-walking ceremony were seen helping an elderly Chinese man who had fainted while attempting to inflate his bicycle tyres at a Shell petrol station along Serangoon Road. The crowd, dressed in ceremonial attire, was holding up a vesthi to shelter the unconscious man, with one devotee performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on him.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force was alerted to the incident around 3.47pm and dispatched an ambulance to the scene. Some people tried to clear the space for the man, who is in his 60s, while others waited by the roadside to direct the ambulance to his location. He was then brought to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and CPR was performed all the way there.