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 [...]
A fire has broken out at Sandton City shopping centre in Johannesburg. Twitter was abuzz early on Thursday afternoon with tweets that “Sandton City is burning”. The fire apparently broke out in the Sandton City extension construction site. Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson Percy Morokane told News24 that the fire started at the construction site and [...]
The fire in the factory on Liverpool Street in Benoni has destroyed a large part of the building. At this stage, the cause of the fire is not known and will be investigated by the relevant Fire Investigation Officials. The factory is believed to have been manufacturing batteries and witnesses explained that there may have [...]
Five people have died in a shack fire in the informal settlement of Lwandle, in Somerset West, outside Cape Town. A blaze gutted two shacks killing an entire family, including three children in the early hours of Friday morning. Cape Town Disaster Risk Management’s Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the cause of the accident is unknown. In [...]
Cape Town Fire Services have warned that late winter rains have resulted in drier than usual vegetation which could lead to runaway veld fires. Cape Town’s winter rains usually fall during late March and early April but this year’s seasonably wet winter is yet to arrive. Long term forecasters have predicted the rains would come [...]
A fire has left 25 people homeless in Masiphumelele, Fish Hoek, the City of Cape Town said on Monday. Spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the fire began in the informal settlement at 23:20 on Sunday night. Although it was brought under control within an hour, a number of homes were destroyed. No-one was injured The city’s [...]
