About 50 residents from 280B Sengkang East Avenue were evacuated as a precautionary measure, says SCDF.
SINGAPORE: Five people, including two children and an infant, were taken to hospital on Wednesday following a fire at a Housing Board flat in Sengkang.
The fire involved contents of a kitchen in a unit on the fourth floor, said SCDF in a Facebook post, adding that the blaze was extinguished with a water jet.Firefighters conducting damping down operations in the affected kitchen. SCDF said that shouts of help could be heard coming from inside the unit when they arrived and fire
The unit was smoke-logged and the firefighters had to carefully manoeuvre their way into the unit, it added. They were taken to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation and one of the adults also sustained minor burn injuries.
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