A fire broke out at a laboratory at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Friday (April 17) afternoon, resulting in one person being taken to the hospital.
Netizens posted photos of several students and staff standing outside the building, as well as Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) vehicles at the scene.
A student at NTU’s School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS) posted on Reddit that the fire alarm had gone off and they had been evacuated while doing an experiment at another lab.
The Redditor made an update at 2.50pm, sharing: “The fire safety officer told us that the police and SCDF need to investigate the fire and we can go [home] first but we can’t go back into SPMS.”
Another commenter said the fire occurred in a lab on the fourth level, adding: “Heard that a reaction went wrong and that’s how the fire started.”
