SINGAPORE - A fire broke out in a flat in the Aljunied area on Friday morning and led to 13 people being evacuated from the Housing Board block.
A statement from the Singapore Civil Defence Force said preliminary investigations showed that the fire at a sixth-storey unit at Block 3 Upper Aljunied Lane occurred due to a lit candle in the living room.The fire was contained within the living room, although some other parts of the unit sustained heat and smoke damage.
Three people evacuated themselves before SCDF arrived, while the SCDF evacuated another 10 people from nearby units.Two people were assessed by medics as a precautionary measure but both said there was no need to take them to hospital, SCDF said. SCDF reminded the public not to leave lighted materials such as candles, tealights and incense sticks unattended and to extinguish these before leaving home.A day later, it caught fire again, likely reignited by deep-seated embers within the debris.