Orchard MRT shuttered for more than an hr after fire alarm triggered (Sun, 5 Jul 15)

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[h=1]Orchard MRT shuttered for more than an hour after fire alarm triggered[/h][h=2]Access to malls from Orchard MRT station were cut off for more than an hour on Sunday evening (Jul 5) after the fire alarm went off and the shutters at the station's exits went down.[/h]

• POSTED: 05 Jul 2015 20:26
• UPDATED: 05 Jul 2015 21:51

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Entrances to malls were shuttered after a fire alarm was triggered at Orchard MRT. (Photo: Kevin Lim)

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SINGAPORE: Access to malls from Orchard MRT station were cut off for more than an hour on Sunday evening (Jul 5) after the fire alarm went off and the shutters at the station's exits went down.
According to a Channel NewsAsia reporter at the scene, entrances to the basement levels of malls including ION Orchard, Wheelock Place and TANGS Orchard were sealed off from about 7.10pm, after the fire alarm sounded.
A security guard from SMRT told Channel NewsAsia that it was a false alarm and that members of the public could enter ION Orchard from street level. The passages re-opened at about 8.30pm.
There was some confusion among those who were trying to enter or exit the station from the basement levels of the malls, the Channel NewsAsia reporter added.






ION Orchard was as per normal, and train services were running normally.


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