Fire at Causeway Point foodcourt’s prata stall put out by off-duty firefighters having breakfast

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. 

What was impressive was that the eight SCDF officers quickly mobilised into a civil safety unit, evacuating staff from the kitchen and other members of the public to safety. 

“Due to their quick thinking, the damage was confined to the kitchen stove and no one was injured,” wrote a very chuffed SCDF on their Facebook page. 

“Gentlemen, you have done us proud!”