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A person was rescued from a HDB flat in Tampines after a fire broke out late at night on Feb 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In response to AsiaOne’s queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to the incident at Block 267 Tampines Street 21 at about 11.25pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fire involved the contents of a bedroom of an 11th floor unit and was extinguished with a water jet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SCDF conducted forcible entry and rescued a person from the unit, who was taken to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n
About 40 residents from the affected block were evacuated by the police and SCDF as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n
A resident living in the affected building told Shin Min Daily News that she only learned of the fire after hearing the sirens of fire trucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She shared that there were at least five fire trucks, three police cars, and one ambulance on site. Firefighters were also seen rushing upstairs carrying water hoses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I saw a large fire in the bedroom of that unit, with thick smoke billowing out,” she recounted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Footage she provided to the Chinese media showed the exterior wall above the bedroom window blackened by smoke, while SCDF personnel were spraying water inside the bedroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The resident said the fire was extinguished in about 10 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SCDF officers on the 11th floor were also heard calling out to other personnel below the block for a first-aid kit. Later, an elderly man was brought downstairs on a stretcher while wearing an oxygen mask, and was taken away in an ambulance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The resident shared that investigations at the unit by SCDF continued past 1am on Feb 20, while hoses were being removed. A fire engine and police car remained at the scene till around 2am, with the process taking more than two hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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