It took three hours and about 60 firefighters to put out the flames engulfing seven shophouses in Geylang Road early yesterday morning.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
It took three hours and about 60 firefighters to put out the flames engulfing seven shophouses in Geylang Road early yesterday morning.
It also shared photos and videos of SCDF officers working to bring the raging fire at the row of double-storey shophouses under control. The fire spread quickly as the units shared a common roof, and had a high density of furniture and other combustible materials in some of them, SCDF said.The SCDF said that at the height of the operations,"nine handheld jets and three water monitors from the aerial appliances" were used.
One user wrote:"My friend and I decided to buy duku langsat at Lorong 36 Geylang fruit shop. What greeted us was a horrifying inferno... at Lorong 33 Geylang shophouses!
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