Two fires break out within an hour at Singapore's Tampines, at flat and factory


The first fire broke out at Block 726 Tampines Street 71 (left) while the second broke out at a three-storey industrial building at 18 Tampines Street 92. -- PHOTOS: KOH POH KOON/FACEBOOK, SHANE WANG

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Two fires in Tampines, one residential and the other industrial, were reported within an hour on Friday (May 9).

The first, in a fifth-storey flat at Block 726 Tampines Street 71, was reported to the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) at about 12.15pm.

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