SINGAPORE – More than 50 people were evacuated but no injuries were reported when a personal mobility aid (PMA) caught fire at the staircase landing of an HDB block in Yishun on the morning of Oct 18.
The incident at Block 438 Yishun Avenue 11 disrupted the electricity supply to two flats adjacent to it, according to the MP for the area.
Repairs were coordinated by Nee Soon Town Council immediately. and power to the units were restored at about 4pm, said Syed Harun Alhabsyi, the MP for Nee Soon Link division in Nee Soon GRC, in a media reply.
Lift operations were not affected, he said.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a statement that it was alerted at around 9.05am to a fire at a common area on the third level, and its officers extinguished it using a Compressed Air Foam trolley.
It added that there were no reported injuries, and preliminary findings showed that a PMA was the source of the fire.
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