CHINATOWN on Fire !!! Near PPC

[Naturefarm2]

There a big fire at chinatown now
Whole PP complex is shut down.
there so many massage centre there, imagine when they try to warn the people to get out, will able to find many " naked worm " inside the partition...

 

[Tadakatsu Honda]

Fire at People's Park Complex


Apr 21, 2010
Fire at People's Park Complex

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The fire is believed to have broken out in a warehouse on the fifth floor at about 3.30 pm. -- PHOTOS: STOMP

The residential block above the shopping complex is not affected.

Shoppers and retailers from the first to fifth floors were asked to evacuate at about 4.30 pm.

<!-- story content : start --> THE fire which broke out on the fifth floor of People's Park Complex in Chinatown has been brought under control. There are no reports of injuries and the extent of damage is not known. The fire is believed to have broken out in a warehouse on the fifth floor at about 3.30 pm. On the same floor are a travel agency, a Chinese restaurant and several storerooms.

Shoppers and retailers from the first to fifth floors were asked to evacuate at about 4.30 pm. Some sales staff interviewed said they did not hear the fire alarm go off earlier. The residential block above the shopping complex is not affected. Eu Tong Seng Street was closed to traffic as firefighters from the Singapore Civil Defence Force fought to contain the fire. Only buses were allowed to get through.

 

[Tadakatsu Honda]

Posted on 21 Apr 2010
Hundreds evacuated in huge fire at People's Park Complex

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<!-- end mm_moodcontainer div --><!-- end mm_moodcontainer div --> STOMPer Ernest sent in this photo of a fire at People's Park Complex along Eu Tong Sen Street which broke at about 4pm today (April 21).

The fire started from a fifth floor storeroom in the building.

Said the STOMPer:

"I saw smoke coming out of People's Park Complex."

STOMPer izzymomo, who also saw the fire, said:

"It happened either on the 4th or 5th floor. The fire is huge now!"

Another witness, STOMPer Nam, said:

"I took some photos of the fire from my office at New Bridge Centre.

"New Bridge Road (towards city) is closed to traffic except for buses."

Latest update from SCDF:

"The fire involved contents of a storeroom located on the fifth floor.

"People from podium shopping levels were evacuated by the building management.

"There were no injuries."

 

[Tadakatsu Honda]

 

[makapaaa]

Some sales staff interviewed said they did not hear the fire alarm go off earlier.

=> This is serious. Caught off guard again!

 

[Guile]

Fire started in illegal rooms

Apr 23, 2010
Fire started in illegal rooms

SCDF to act against owner for serious fire safety violation

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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> WEDNESDAY'S fire at People's Park Complex started in some storerooms which had been built illegally at the fifth-floor carpark of the building, preliminary investigations showed. The owner had not obtained approval from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to convert the area from a carpark to storage rooms. 'This is a serious fire safety violation and SCDF will follow up to take action against the offender,' an SCDF spokesman said yesterday. The fire at the mall had sent hundreds of tenants and shoppers scurrying out of the building. While no one was hurt, the fire has raised the spectre of the blaze which gutted the former Robinsons department store at Raffles Place in 1972. That fire killed nine people and destroyed $21 million worth of property.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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[Sun Wukong]

Tenants seek compensation


Apr 24, 2010
Tenants seek compensation

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Several tenants are considering seeking compensation for the damage caused by the fire, which started in a reportedly illegal storeroom on the fifth floor of the building. -- ST PHOTO: ZAO BAO

<!-- story content : start --> SOOTY air conditioning ducts, faulty computers, drenched carpets and documents and stained ceiling boards. This was the aftermath of last Wednesday's fire at People's Park Complex that caused a mass evacuation. Several tenants are considering seeking compensation for the damage caused by the fire, which started in a reportedly illegal storeroom on the fifth floor of the building. 'We are seriously considering the neccesary claims for compensation,' said Mr S H Almenoar, 66, a partner at law firm R Ramason & Almenoar. It is located one storey below on the fourth floor.

Water used to put out the fire, dripped from the ceiling and soaked a few stacks of case files and damaged two computers - now fixed - belonging to the law firm. New ceiling boards, that the firm had just installed a few months ago, were also stained with brown water marks - although the flooded fifth floor was drained on Thursday. Mr Wilson Goh, complex manager at SCMS Property Management, which manages People's Park Complex, could not be reached for comments at press time. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said the owner did not have its approval to convert the fifth-floor carpark space into storage rooms nor to build the stores. 'This is a serious fire-safety violation and SCDF will follow up to take action against the offender,' it said in a statement.

Read the full story in The Sunday Times.