When a fire broke out in a storeroom at retirement complex Kampung Admiralty in December, its "kampung spirit" was tested.
As the fire alarm sounded at lunchtime, some 260 people had to be evacuated - including children from a childcare centre on the sixth floor and seniors from a daycare centre on the seventh floor.
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