Four people were taken to hospital and 50 evacuated after a fire broke out in a Serangoon HDB flat on Tuesday (Sept 16) evening.In a Facebook post later that day, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it responded to a fire at Block 502 Serangoon North Avenue 4 at about 8pm.Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters saw that one of the bedrooms of the seventh-floor HDB unit was on fire and extinguished the flames with a water jet.Three people from the unit had evacuated before SCDF arrived, with one of them having suffered minor burn injuries.They were assessed for smoke inhalation and taken to Singapore General Hospital, alongside another resident from a neighbouring unit. As a precautionary measure, around 50 residents were also evacuated from the block by the police and SCDF.Preliminary findings revealed that the fire likely had an electrical origin in the bedroom. Read more