Hawkers worry about new stall design after fire

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Foodcourt operator Canopy Hawkers Group will check if additional mitigation measures are needed after hawkers raised concerns following

The single-storey hawker centre has 44 stalls, which are arranged in five hexagonal structures of eight to nine stalls each. Each stall has openings at the back leading into a common area shared by other stalls in the same ring.Madam Christine Lock, 47, who runs a nasi lemak stall two stalls away from the one that caught fire, said she was with her husband when the fire broke out.

Madam Lock said that to reach the fire extinguishers placed in front of the stalls, hawkers have to go out the back of their stall, and then past the single common exit door. “At least I can still get out,” said the 29-year-old, who runs Mexican-Indian fusion food stall Snack That Food Up. “But others may not be able to.”

“It wastes a lot of my time to walk one big round, since there isn’t an opening at the front counter.”Darren , who has been in the hawker business for more than 10 years and runs a stall at the hawker centre, said stallholders were informed of Canopy Hawkers Group’s “front counter clause” prior to

 

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