SINGAPORE - A thousand people were evacuated after a fire broke out at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) medicine faculty building on Tuesday morning (March 26).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - A thousand people were evacuated after a fire broke out at the National University of Singapore's medicine faculty building on Tuesday morning .
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said that it was alerted to a fire at 14 Medical Drive at 11.10am. The address is listed online as the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine's MD6 building, which houses the Centre for Translational Medicine and the Medical Library.It was extinguished by the sprinkler system before firefighters arrived.Mr Imran Ibrahim, who works in customer service at the nearby National University Hospital, told The Straits Times that he saw around five fire engines and six police vehicles at the scene.SCDF said that it is investigating the cause of the fire.
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