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WEDNESDAY'S fire at People's Park Complex started in some storerooms which had been built illegally at the fifth-floor carpark of the building, preliminary investigations showed.
The owner had not obtained approval from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to convert the area from a carpark to storage rooms.
'This is a serious fire safety violation and SCDF will follow up to take action against the offender,' an SCDF spokesman said yesterday.
The fire at the mall had sent hundreds of tenants and shoppers scurrying out of the building.
While no one was hurt, the fire has raised the spectre of the blaze which gutted the former Robinsons department store at Raffles Place in 1972.
That fire killed nine people and destroyed $21 million worth of property.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
The owner had not obtained approval from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to convert the area from a carpark to storage rooms.
'This is a serious fire safety violation and SCDF will follow up to take action against the offender,' an SCDF spokesman said yesterday.
The fire at the mall had sent hundreds of tenants and shoppers scurrying out of the building.
While no one was hurt, the fire has raised the spectre of the blaze which gutted the former Robinsons department store at Raffles Place in 1972.
That fire killed nine people and destroyed $21 million worth of property.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
