64 evacuated after fire breaks out in Yishun coffee shop

The Singapore Civil Defence Force had to conduct a forcible entry into the coffee shop, and extinguished the fire using a water jet. - ASSOC PROF MUHAMMAD FAISHAL IBRAHIM/FACEBOOK

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Sixty-four people were evacuated when a fire broke out at a coffee shop on the ground floor of a residential block in Yishun.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that it was alerted to the fire at 12.40am on Tuesday at Block 747 Yishun Street 72.