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SINGAPORE, June 21 (Xinhua) -- One person was found dead and two others were taken to hospital with burns after a fire broke out in Jurong, Singapore, on Friday.
The fire was brought under control at 7:30 p.m. local time.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted to the fire at 5:10 p.m. local time. A total of 35 emergency vehicles and 120 firefighters were deployed to the scene.
The fire involved hundreds of highly flammable liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders of various sizes in an LPG facility and spread fast, SCDF said in a Facebook post.
"Firefighters faced intense heat amidst exploding LPG cylinders while preventing the fire from spreading to larger LPG storage tanks nearby," the post added.
