SINGAPORE: A fire broke out in a housing board flat at Tampines Street 83 on Saturday afternoon (Jan 20).
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it was alerted to the incident at Block 867A at about 5.30pm.
The fire involved “contents of three bedrooms and a living room”, said SCDF, adding that the blaze was extinguished using two water jets.
Residents of the second-floor flat had evacuated before officers arrived. SCDF personnel later evacuated about 40 residents from the block.
No injuries were reported.
Smoke seen from a block of flats nearby. (Photo: Pooja Shukla)
Photos and video taken by a Channel NewsAsia reader show thick smoke billowing from the second floor of a maisonette unit and the view was hazy from a couple of blocks away.
