Fire breaks
out in Tampines flat, no injuries reported
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 a bedroom", said SCDF, adding that
the blaze was extinguished using one water jet.
Residents of the second-floor flat had evacuated before officers
arrived and no injuries were reported.
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.
Source: CNA/ng