Fire in Tuas involving marine buoys takes 6 hours to extinguish
A fire on Sunday afternoon in Tuas involving large marine buoys took about six hours to extinguish.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted to a fire at 21 Tuas View Place at about 1.40pm involving large marine buoys filled with dense foam, said SCDF in a Facebook post on 3 December.
The fire was confined to the storage yard, which SCDF said was the size of a basketball court. SCDF extinguished the flames using foam jets.
“It was a protracted firefighting operation due to the difficulty in accessing the deep-seated fire as the rows of large buoys had melted and fused together,” said SCDF. The fire was finally extinguished at 7.50pm.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
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