A lorry burst into flames at the carpark near Block 228 Choa Chu
Kang Central, and it was completely destroyed.
Said Wilson, who sent in this email to STOMP:
This is scary! I was about to blog when suddenly there's a loud
explosion going on. At first, I thought it was some kid under the
block playing with fire crackers since tomorrow is the Mid Autumn
festival. But I was wrong.
The explosion was really loud and to my surprise a vehicle was
burning furiously under the block at the car park! This happened at
about 9.15PM at Choa Chu Kang Central Blk 228 Carpark on
24/09/2007.
Immediately I took my phone and take pictures and videos of the
scene.
The van was burning and from the video we can hear the explosions.
It was horrifying! It exploded 3 times in the video. The fire was
really big and we could smell the smoke.
We called 999 immediately. (I know I said 995 in the video but we
called 999 instead). When I was talking through the phone with the
police officer, I supposed no one had called at that point of time
because I was asked a lot of questions. So what we can see from
here is that Singaporeans don't really care about this, they just
stood there and watch "show".
The vehicles beside the burning van did not get burnt badly. From
what I can see after the fire was put out by the SCDF, the burnt
was most probably caused by stuff inside the lorry. I'm not really
sure what it is because it's already black!
I don't think anyone was injured."
Zogel, who lives in the area as well, sent in these pictures of the
van on fire, and says that "prior to the incident, lots of kids
were playing those firecrackers."
Both the Police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force confirmed
they received a call about the incident at 9.15pm and said a Toyota
lorry parked at the open carpark at Block 228 Choa Chu Kang
Central.
The lorry was totally destroyed. Two other nearby vehicles suffered
heat damage. No one was injured in the blaze.
Investigations are ongoing.
