Fire under investigation after overnight work shift

SINGAPORE : Hanimeilisa Haron was eating at home after an overnight work shift when she heard cries of fire, fire! On Thursday, outside her flat at 91 Henderson Road, it was about 11.10 am and a fire was raging in her next-door neighbour's flat. The blaze would eventually lead to the death of a 19-year-old firefighter.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. On Friday, the Singapore Civil Defence Force SCDF was still working at the scene when CNA visited.

The fire started in a fourth-floor flat occupied by 21-year-old Muhammad Azri RamlanAzri Ramlan, his wife, his child, his parents-in- law and two of his wife's siblings.

Mr Azri said he saw a really big fire blazing near the socket at the window of the bedroom where they were napping.

He immediately woke his wife, as well as his sister-in-law, who was sleeping in the living room, and rushed them out of the house. Mr Azri said he told his neighbours about the fire and called SCDF. On Thursday night, the family was moved to an unoccupied flat on the 10th floor of the same block.