---
title: "Fire breaks out in living room of Hougang flat"
url: "/singapore-seen/fire-breaks-out-in-living-room-of-hougang-flat"
published: "2017-10-17T06:50:55.000Z"
updated: "2017-10-17T06:50:55.000Z"
section: "Singapore Seen"
tags: ["Fire","Hougang","scdf","HDB flats"]
---

# Fire breaks out in living room of Hougang flat

*A fire broke out in the living room of a flat in Block 417 Hougang Avenue 8 today (Oct 17) at around 9.40am. *

A fire broke out in the living room of a flat in Block 417 Hougang Avenue 8 today (Oct 17) at around 9.40am.

In a video sent by Stomper Zulfaa, flames and a column of smoke can be seen emerging from a window of the affected Housing Development Board unit on the 13th storey.

In response to a Stomp query, a spokesman from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that the fire was extinguished with a water jet.

There were no reported injuries.