SINGAPORE: A fire broke out on Tuesday (Mar 20) on Pulau Busing, one of the islands off the southern coast of Singapore.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a tweet at about 6.30pm that it is responding to the incident.
The fire involved an oil storage tank, said SCDF in an update at about 7.15pm, adding that members of the Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) are conducting firefighting operations.
No casualties have been reported.
The oil storage tank that is on fire belongs to Tankstore, which has a facility on Pulau Busing for storing petroleum and petrochemical products.
The fire was “quite severe”, a Tankstore source told Reuters, asking not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Photos posted on social media show a thick plume of smoke billowing from the island, which is home to oil and chemical storage facilities.
Fire at Pulau Busing. (Photo: Crew member on board OHC Shipmanagement vessel)
A 29-year-old Channel NewsAsia reader, who did not want to be named, said she saw smoke rising from the island since 6pm.
Ms Nicky Ng, 48, told Channel NewsAsia she saw the smoke from the condominium she lives in near Harbourfront.
“It was about to rain and (we) heard thunder … when (we) looked at the sky, saw smoke in the sky and then saw it coming from the offshore island,” she said.
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