A fire broke out at a shophouse along Serangoon Road on July 22, resulting in the evacuation of about 40 people in the surrounding buildings. No injuries were reported in the incident. Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) stated that it was alerted to the fire at unit 562C Serangoon Road at around 9.30am. Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters found smoke emerging from the fourth storey of the shophouse. They used water jets to extinguish the blaze and to prevent it from spreading to adjacent shophouses. The fire was extinguished within an hour. Damping-down operations were carried out on the burnt area to ensure the fire did not reignite.
