About 35 residents were evacuated and one person was taken to hospital after a flat in Pasir Ris caught fire on Sunday night. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post late on Sunday that it was alerted to a fire at a second-storey Housing Board flat...
About 35 residents were evacuated and one person was taken to hospital after a flat in Pasir Ris caught fire on Sunday night.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said in a Facebook post late on Sunday that it was alerted to a fire at a second-storey Housing Board flat at Block 571 Pasir Ris Street 53 at 9.15pm. When SCDF firefighters arrived, a fire was raging in the kitchen of the unit. They extinguished the blaze using a compressed air foam backpack and a water jet.Five people managed to get out of the flat before SCDF officers arrived.
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