Fire breaks
out at Tuas waste management plant
SINGAPORE: Two Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers
have been sent to hospital after fighting a fire at a waste
management plant at Tuas on Wednesday.
A Facebook Live video posted at 6.55pm showed thick smoke emerging
from the upper levels of the Greenway Environmental building at 6
Tuas South Street 8 as firefighters worked to put out the
blaze.
The SCDF said in a Facebook post at 7.25pm that it was responding
to the factory fire.
SGSecure mobile application users and StarHub mobile subscribers
within the immediate vicinity of the fire incident received an
advisory message urging members of public to stay away from the
area, it added.
At 8.50pm, SCDF said the fire was extinguished with the aid of
two unmanned firefighting machines. The blaze involved general
waste in an area about the size of a basketball court, it
said.
It added that firefighters were damping down the affected area so
the fire would not rekindle. As of 11.40pm, damping down operations
were still underway.
Source: CNA/mz