SINGAPORE \u2013 Two people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Chinatown in the afternoon of Nov 11.<\/p>\n
Videos taken at the scene show grey smoke rising near Ming Tai Medical and Trading, a shop located on the first floor of Block 34 Upper Cross Street.<\/p>\n
A check on the shop\u2019s website shows that it sells Chinese herbs as well as liquor and wine.<\/p>\n
In response to media queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at about 12.50pm.<\/p>\n
It said the fire involved contents in the storage area of a commercial unit on the first floor.<\/p>\n
SCDF officers conducted forced entry into the unit and extinguished the fire using a water jet.<\/p>\n
About 40 people were evacuated by the police as a precaution.<\/p>\n
Of these, two people were assessed for smoke inhalation and they were taken to the Singapore General Hospital.<\/p>\n
When The Straits Times arrived at the block at about 1.30pm, there were around four SCDF vehicles, six police cars and an ambulance in the area.<\/p>\n
At least two people were seen receiving medical attention in the ambulance, while a bus stop near the affected block was cordoned off.<\/p>\n Chinese medicine shop Ming Tai Medical and Trading cordoned off after a fire on Nov 11.<\/p>\n ST PHOTO: BRIAN TEO<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A 41-year old man, who wanted to be known as Zhang, told ST he saw the shop owner\u2019s wife running out of the premises at around 12.30pm.<\/p>\n Realising there was a fire, Zhang, who works at a nearby hair salon, borrowed a fire extinguisher from another shop and ran into the unit to try and put out the fire.<\/p>\n He said the unit was filled with smoke and he could not see anything.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t wearing a mask, so I couldn\u2019t stay inside for long because I couldn\u2019t breathe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Zhang said that firefighters arrived shortly after and he was asked to evacuate.<\/p>\n Amy Seow, who works at the medicine shop next door, also observed smoke coming out of the affected unit at around 12.30pm.<\/p>\n \u201cThe smoke got thicker and thicker and it was hurting our eyes, so my colleague and I closed the shop and evacuated,\u201d Seow said.<\/p>\n SCDF said the cause of fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Chinatown in the afternoon of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>
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