About 50 members of the public were evacuated from the block while a resident from the burning unit on the fifth floor self-evacuated before the SCDF arrived. Paramedics sent a resident of a neighbouring unit to the Singapore General Hospital.
SINGAPORE: Yet another fire has broken out in a HDB flat – this time at Tanjong Pagar – just about two weeks after a 79-year-old and a 17-year-old lost their lives in separate cases involving fires that erupted in their homes.
The Singapore Civil Defense Force has confirmed that they received a call for assistance at around 2:15pm and said that firefighters put out the fire with water jets. Photos and videos taken by eyewitnesses are circulating on social media. The footage shows thick smoke rising from the burning unit while a crowd of onlookers are gathered at the scene.On 10 June, a massive fire broke out within a 12th-floor unit at 783 Yishun Ring Road last Saturday and firefighters found a 17-year-old unconscious in the flat.
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