SINGAPORE – About 50 residents of an HDB block in Yishun were evacuated and one person taken to hospital after a fire in one of the block’s units in the wee hours of April 12.
In response to queries from The Straits Times, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire – which involved contents of a second floor unit in Block 510B Yishun Street 51 – at about 3am that day.
Members of the public extinguished the fire using a hosereel and fire extinguisher before its officers arrived, SCDF said.
About 50 people were evacuated from the affected block as a precautionary measure by the police and SCDF, it added.
