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Making a safe haven with bomb shelters at MRT stations
In the event of a national emergency, SCDF will convert some underground MRT stations to protect the population
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Once a year, as an operationally ready national serviceman, I put on my Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) uniform and take on the role of a sergeant in an MRT shelter company.
While most people are sound asleep at 1am, about 40 of us begin converting our assigned MRT station into a bomb shelter.
