SINGAPORE — Residents living near the scene of a Yishun flat fire on Saturday (June 10) at about 8.45pm which left a 17-year-old youth dead have described hearing what sounded like a loud explosion similar to a car crash as the blaze erupted.
have described hearing what sounded like a loud explosion similar to a car crash as the blaze erupted.
Mr Kho immediately called the Singapore Civil Defence Force and then noticed residents evacuating from the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th floors of block 783.“I tried my best, there was nothing much else I could do from my home,” Mr Kho said.Mr Davian Kho, 22, who heard an explosion then witnessed the fire in the block opposite hisIn a Facebook post on Saturday, SCDF said that when fire-fighting personnel arrived at the scene, the fire was raging inside the flat.
Ms Kin Leong, an 11th floor resident of block 783 living almost directly below the unit where the fire occurred, said that people from block 781 were shouting across their balconies, alerting those in block 738 of the fire. She said that her neighbour, who lives in the adjacent unit to hers, which is directly below the unit where the fire erupted, could feel the vibration caused by the explosion inside her own house.
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