Female injured in fire at Singapore Polytechnic

[UPDATED on 19 July 2pm: adding details from SCDF and SP]

A female was injured after a fire broke out at stall 7 of Singapore Polytechnic’s (SP) food court 3 on Thursday evening.

A spokesperson for the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)  said the food stall assistant suffered burns on the right side of her face and her right arm.

She was sent to the Singapore General Hospital and was alert and conscious on the way there, he added.

An SP spokesperson told Yahoo! Singapore on Friday that the lady had received treatment for the minor injury and was discharged from the hospital on Thursday night.

The spokesperson added that the school's food court 3 resumed partial operations on Friday.

The SCDF received a call regarding the fire at 7:18pm on Thursday and took 25 minutes to extinguish it, according to the spokesperson.

He added that the SCDF are investigating the cause of the fire.

Shah Salimat, a 21-year-old full-time national serviceman who was at the scene, told Yahoo! Singapore he heard a loud explosion at around 7:15pm.

He later saw a fire blazing at the Malay food stall.

There were around 80 people at the food court at the time, he added, and people started leaving after the explosion occurred.

Some people at the scene also tweeted about it.

The fire on Thursday is the second this week after another blaze broke out at the polytechnic’s staff office at the fifth floor of Teaching Block 2 on Tuesday evening.

There were no reported injuries from that incident.

SCDF are currently investigating the cause of the fire.

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