SINGAPORE – Some 80 firefighters and 20 emergency vehicles have been deployed to combat a blaze at an industrial warehouse in Tuas that broke out in the wee hours of June 12.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post at about 5am that it was alerted to a fire at 3 Gul Crescent, at about 3am.
The fire involves a warehouse about the size of a football field, SCDF said in an update at about 6am, adding that seven water jets, two firefighting machines and an aerial monitor are being used to combat the blaze.
SCDF said in an update at about 7.45am that the fire, which involved waste materials and chemicals, was contained within the warehouse and under control.
There are no reported injuries at the time of its latest Facebook post, SCDF said.
There were 125 fires at industrial premises in 2025, an increase of 27.5 per cent from 98 fires in 2024, SCDF said in its latest annual statistics report.
These fires were among the 471 fire calls at non-residential premises that SCDF responded to in 2025, up from 415 calls in 2024.
Fires due to electrical origin accounted for 43.5 per cent of fires in non-residential premises in 2025, SCDF added.