SINGAPORE: Two people were hurt after a fire broke out in the bedroom of a 48th-floor unit at the Pinnacle@Duxton in Tanjong Pagar early on Monday morning (May 21).
The man and the woman, both in their 60s, suffered smoke inhalation.
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SCDF said it responded to the fire at Block 1D Cantonment Road at about 4.15am. Firefighters extinguished the fire, which involved the contents of a bedroom, using two water jets.
SCDF is investigating the cause of the fire.
Completed in 2009, the Pinnacle@Duxton is an integrated public housing development by the Housing and Development Board that comprises seven 50-storey high towers.
AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2014, about 40 residents self-evacuated after a flat on the 29th floor of Block 1E in the development caught fire. No one was injured in that incident.
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