this incident was held at about 5:34PM when i was coming back from SP, and yes i was super duper tired after lectures and also had to stay back as i needed one report format for my marketing project.

then i overslept on the train and went to admiralty, and so i took the return train back to woodlands. after alighting at woodlands, was wanting to meet jieying. so yeah. she was like in the toilet, and the fire alarm rang…

i was reacted normal, since it might just be a small incident as normally you do hear false alarms in school, shopping centres, even commercial buildings. and yeah. was waiting outside long john silvers.

then yeah. saw xinli with her, and yeah. so we walked out of causeway point, and at the same time, we heard over the public announcement saying that “We are accessing situation, and ask the people in the mall to stay calm and do not use the lift till further notice.” so i treated it as a false alarm. so  jieying wanted to come my house to do RJ and spend some time.

at about 5:40PM so yeah. xinli wanted to top up her ezlink card, and thereafter, we saw smoke coming out from the mall, and one aunty beside us was saying that the alarm sounded the third time. i was like thinking …. hmm… the management accessing the situation, then smoke coming out from the building at level 4~5 at the carpark area, and they can treat it as a “calm situation”? omg. and yeah. we carried on to see whats happening, so we went around, and still see people walking in and out of causeway point, as if nothing has happened.

thereafter, about 5 mins after we walked to the other side of the building, near metro area, we got the feel of the bruning smell, it seems to be some machines being burnt? so thereafter, the fire-engines from the civil defence came. was so cool. lol. haha. but it seems that they are really slow in respose, all at their own pace. so then after, the management, seems to do something, by asking the metro staffs to evacuate out of the building. so after that, we got kind of bored, and walked into causeway point, to see whats really going on. since there was no sign of smoke after awhile. so we went in to causeway, and i rang simply.shamus. :) hahaha. so yeah. that was like 6:05PM, people still in the mall. LOL! then was like. cool ah. see people rushing down, but seems that there was no fire? and yeah. the side where popular, timezone.

heard it was from raffles dental clinic, and some blogs can even say that was from level 2~3, but to me, confirmed! level 4~5, since that was the place on fire. look at the photos:

location outside timezone, near raffles dental clinic

location outside timezone, near raffles dental clinic

then we walked over to the metro and courts area, only seeing that these few areas, the “fire safety measures of the building was then put in place. the evacuation of the whole mall only take place at about 6:10PM and yeah. at then was like i saw the police talking to 2 guys, seems like the police was holding some “fire hazardous stuffs” not sure if they were culprits or assisting in investigations.

people was like asking the security guards and management about the fire, but however, the security guards are so rude and answered a probably curious man “This is a real fire. How many times you want me to tell you.” This was what the security guard replied. I seriously find it disturbing, since they should at least answer the questions from the public. Another security guard answered another lady, “…. This is so much I can tell you, I won’t answer anything more.”

after that i headed back home, and yeah on the way back, passing by civic centre, seems that lots of people queuing up for lerk thai, macdonalds, and also the cafe in the library, seems that food really does matter to us! haha. lol.

thats about it. :)

links to other passer-by’s blog. :)

- http://woshiitcy.blogspot.com/ (credits for the photos, since i was lazy to take any.)
- http://bikejourneys.blogspot.com/2009/05/10km-run-to-causeway-point-and-back.html
- http://theinvincibleviolets.blogspot.com/2009/05/causeway-points-carpark-on-fire.html
- http://thlastmoments.blogspot.com/
- http://abovecloudnine.blogspot.com/2009/05/weird.html
- http://syahidah-withlove.blogspot.com/

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