6 taken to hospital after fire at People’s Park Complex
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SINGAPORE - Six people were taken to hospital following a fire at People’s Park Complex in Chinatown early on April 21.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to a fire there around 4.35am.
The fire involved cleaning supplies and equipment in a storage area on Level 6 of the residential and commercial building, said the SCDF, adding that the fire was extinguished using a water jet.
A part of the building’s sixth floor that caught fire on April 21.
PHOTO: XIAOHONGSHU
Six people were taken to Singapore General Hospital for smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
In videos circulated on social media platforms X and Xiaohongshu, people can be seen gathering outside the building in the dark as firefighters arrived.
One Xiaohongshu user said she was woken up after 4am to leave her residence on the top floor of the building.
The management of People’s Park Complex declined to comment, citing ongoing investigations by the authorities.
The building, a first-of-its-kind multi-use development in South-east Asia, was completed in 1973 and houses shops, homes and offices.
Checks showed that operations at a hotpot restaurant on the sixth floor of the complex, the same level where the fire happened, was not affected.
