Four children died and their mother was seriously injured on Monday in Khayelitsha when the shack they were sleeping in caught fire, Western Cape police said. The children, aged between two and 15, were sleeping with their mother when the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning, said Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut. He [...]
A fire tore through approximately one hundred shacks at the Slovo Park informal settlement in Johannesburg this evening, leaving one man seriously injured. At the time of release it is unclear as to whether anyone had been killed in the blaze. The cause of the fire and the series of events leading up to it [...]
PAARL 14 July 2011, 13;30 One man has been seriously injured this afternoon after jumping from the roof of a burning house at a golf estate near Paarl. A group of contractors were working on a double story house, allegedly doing some sort of waterproofing on the roof. What happened next is still unclear, but [...]
A family of five, including four children died after a fire ripped through a house in Ormonde on Wednesday morning, Johannesburg Emergency Services said. “They were all found dead in the kitchen of the two bedroom house,” spokesperson Synock Matobako said. “Indications are that the children and their 31-year-old mother were trying to escape when [...]
A fire broke out on the second floor of apartments at the corners of Alice Street and Dr Yusaf Dadoo Road (Old Name – Grey Street) in the Durban CBD this afternoon. Black bellowing smoke could be seen from all around Durban and as emergency personnel approached the scene they did not know what to [...]
The Millys restaurant next to the N4 highway between Belfast and Machadodorp has been destroyed in a fire, Beeld newspaper reported on Saturday. The restaurant and adjacent shopping centre caught fire on Friday around 09:00 when sparks from the chimney fell onto the thatched roof. A strong wind was blowing at the time. Nobody was [...]
Paramedics received an urgent call tonight for a bakkie that was on fire on the R114 between Copperhouse Road and Beyers Naude Drive. A towing service vehicle was driving around the area when he came across the vehicle which was well alight. He called for medical assistance as he thought he could see someone inside [...]
With the families and loved ones of those lost in the devastating fire at the Home in Springs last night in our thoughts and prayers, there comes a responsibility of those in the know to educate the public in prevention of a similar occurrence. Accidental fires are just that – an accident. There are however, [...]
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No Comments »Another devastating structural fire in a care center in Springs has left 12 dead and another 28 injured. With the Peter Wessels Old Age Home fire still fresh in the minds of Emergency and Fire Rescue Personnel, it seemed more like a nightmare than reality when shortly after 12 last night a fire broke out [...]
A mother saved her two-month-old baby girl and seven-year-old son from a burning shack in Ipeleng, North West police said on Thursday. Leiutenant Colonel Lesego Metsi said the mother had left the baby girl with her brother sleeping in the shack, when she had to rush to a nearby tuck shop to buy paraffin on [...]
