500 evacuated in fire at Singapore hotel; no injuries
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Officials say about 500 people were evacuated during a fire at a luxury hotel in Singapore, but there were no reports of injuries.
Smoke billowed out of the Grand Hyatt hotel in the Orchard Road shopping district. Guests, passers-by and staff, including some wearing chef hats, gasped as they watched from a distance away.
The Singapore Civil Defense Force said the fire started in the kitchen of a restaurant on the hotel's second floor. It said water sprinklers extinguished the blaze before firefighters arrived.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"There were no reported injuries. The cause of the fire is under investigation," it said.
Last month, about 1,000 guests and staff were evacuated when a switch room caught fire at another Singapore hotel. There were no injuries.