Massive carpark fire at Singapore’s Golden Mile Tower

In a Facebook post at 2.30pm, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) described the incident as a "multi-vehicle fire". It was alerted to the fire at around 12.50pm.

The fire, which involved multiple cars at the car park, was extinguished by SCDF using two water jets," said SCDF, adding that about 45 people were evacuated by the police and SCDF.

Preliminary findings indicate that the cars involved in the fire were not electric vehicles, according to SCDF, which is investigating the cause of the fire.

Fire investigators were still at the car park on level 6 at around 4pm, with police telling CNA that the level was "not cleared yet". The area was still closed as of 5.10pm

CNA also observed that tenants from levels one to five were allowed back into the building at around 3.45pm and that there was some flooding in the basement and water dripping from the ceiling at level two.

Earlier at 2.30pm, CNA spotted at least nine SCDF vehicles parked outside Golden Mile Tower. A few firefighters were seen walking out of the building.

Mr Jimmy Myo, a kitchen helper at Golden Mile Thien Kee steamboat restaurant in the basement of the building, said that the fire alarm rang at about 1.30pm. He was told by his boss to evacuate and roughly 11 employees then made their way to the entrance of the building.

Mr Myo, 36, said he heard that there had been a fire at the sixth-floor car park with around six cars burning. The staff waited for around 20 minutes before returning to their restaurant but were asked to evacuate again.