SINGAPORE – Twenty people were evacuated after a fire broke out at a ground-floor unit of an HDB block in Tampines on Sept 3.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at Block 477 Tampines Street 43 at about 8.20am.
The fire involved an electrical distribution box in the unit, it said, adding that firefighters extinguished the blaze with a water jet.
About 20 people were evacuated from the affected block as a precaution.
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