A long 24-hour shift on duty at a fire station is tiring enough — but there's no rest for rescuers. Eight off-duty firefighters from Bukit Batok Fire Station had to cut short their breakfast at Causeway Point's Bagus foodcourt and sprung into action when a stove caught fire at one of the stalls.
The seven Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) national servicemen and a regular officer were first alerted by seeing an excessive amount of smoke pouring out from the prata stall about 10.30am yesterday. As it turned out, a stove caught fire — but that was no problem for the firefighters who extinguished the flames with a hose reel and a fire extinguisher. We'd like to imagine they continued eating their breakfast nonchalantly after all the hubbub died down.