120 evacuated and 5 taken to hospital after North Bridge Road HDB fire

Singapore -- Five people were conveyed to the hospital after an HDB flat in North Bridge Unit caught fire on Saturday (Jun 12). The fire took place in a seventh-floor unit in the Housing Board block and was extinguished using a water jet. About 120 people were evacuated from the sixth to 10th floors of the block by the police. https://youtu.be/8DLAp-6625c A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) spokesman said it was alerted to the blaze at Block 8 at about 10.15 pm. The SCDF added that four people were conveyed to Singapore General Hospital and one person to Tan Tock Seng Hospital. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Jalan Besar GRC MP Denise Phua wrote: “Almost everything in the flat burnt. Thank God no serious injury”. She added: “HDB Sims Drive Rental expediently put up (shocked) resident in a nearby replacement rental flat. "After settling them at the new empty flat (thanks to HDB), we bought and delivered some essentials such as pails , makan, fan, kettle etc for family from a 24-hour supermarket," Ms Phua wrote. /TISG