Close call for condo tenant as water heater explodes

The force of the water heater blast last Saturday blew out the bathroom window (left) and sent the bathroom door flying across the bedroom (right). The condominium unit's tenant, who would give his name only as Mr Eduardo, said he had taken a bath just 30 minutes before the incident, and that the heater was switched off when the explosion occurred. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF EDUARDO.

SINGAPORE: A 39-year-old Australian tenant of a condominium unit at Cote D'Azur in Marine Parade was reading a book on mortality just seconds before an explosion ripped through the bathroom and his master bedroom last Saturday.

The electric storage water heater in the en-suite bathroom had exploded, ripping the bathroom door off its hinges and blowing out the bathroom window.