About 50 people evacuated after fire breaks out in Hougang flat
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The police and SCDF evacuated about 50 people from the affected block.
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SINGAPORE – About 50 people were evacuated after a flat in Hougang caught fire on Friday afternoon.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted to a fire at Block 376B Hougang Street 32 at about 1.15pm, it said in response to queries from The Straits Times.
A second-storey Housing Board flat was affected by the blaze.
A video of the fire circulating on Facebook on Saturday shows flames and thick, billowing smoke from a window on the second storey, as at least three passers-by watched from the side of a road in front of the block.
Firefighters extinguished the fire using a water jet and a hose reel, SCDF said. The police and SCDF evacuated about 50 people from the affected block.
SCDF said it assessed a person for smoke inhalation, but the person declined to be taken to hospital.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
