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About 80 residents were evacuated when a fire broke out in a Housing Development Board (HDB) flat in Bukit Panjang on Tuesday (June 23) afternoon.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at Block 532 Jelapang Road just after 2pm, which involved “contents of a bedroom in a unit on the sixth floor.”
Fire caught on video
Twitter user Kyra Tayer posted a video showing smoke and flames coming out from the window of the HDB unit.
In her post, she said they were screaming for their neighbours in the building across to leave and “all of us are being evacuated.”
https://twitter.com/clouderella/status/1275312733869584386/video/1
Speaking to theAsianparent, Ms Tayer said she first noticed a smell of what seemed to be burning rubber. Thinking it was coming from her home, she then looked around and saw black smoke billowing out from the unit across their block.
She then called 999. She also said there were a mother and a child in another room of the affected unit. “When they looked out their bedroom window we all screamed for them to evacuate because their kitchen was burning.”
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