East Coast furniture shop razed
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A fire engulfed a furniture shop at 135 Upper East Coast Road early yesterday morning (3 Feb 2019).
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a series of Facebook posts that it had been alerted to a fire at the furniture shop at 3.33am.
Eleven emergency vehicles and about 35 firefighters were involved. At one point, five water jets were used to get the fire under control.
Residents who had been evacuated by the police and the SCDF as a safety precaution were allowed to return to their homes. There were no reported injuries and the SCDF is investigating the cause of the fire.