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Woman taken to hospital after fire breaks out at Rentokil Initial headquarters in MacPherson

A fire broke out at the headquarters of pest control company Rentokil Initial Singapore in MacPherson on Friday morning (21 Dec 2018), with dense grey smoke seen billowing from the building even from hundreds of metres away.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) had been alerted to the fire at 16 Jalan Mesin.

The fire involved pest control equipment and was extinguished in about two hours.

When firefighters arrived at around 9.20am, the fire had fully engulfed a storage area on the ground floor of the three-storey building, SCDF said.

A woman was taken to Raffles Hospital by ambulance due back pain while evacuating the building. She was discharged later in the day. No other injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Published : 1-Jan-2019