The Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) firefighters, from Primrose Fire Station, responded to a multiple shack fire at the Makause informal settlement, last Saturday.
“At around 10.41pm firefighters saw thick black smoke emerging from within the settlement and immediately responded,” explained William Ntladi, district manager media liaison for DEMS.
“The firefighters were met with hostility when they made their way into the informal settlement with community members throwing an assortment of objects at the team preventing them from executing their duties with ease.”
For the full story be sure to get this week’s Germiston City News, out this Wednesday (April 3).
The Germiston branch of the Red Cross assisted 53 community members from the Makause informal settlement with blankets after they lost their belongings in a multiple shack fire, last Saturday. Here Titus Baloyi and Thomas Mufamadi hand over blankets to a community member.
Little remains of 17 Makause informal settlement shacks following a multiple shack fire, last Saturday.
The Germiston branch of the Red Cross assisted 53 community members from the Makause informal settlement with blankets after they lost their belongings in a multiple shack fire, last Saturday. Here Titus Baloyi and Thomas Mufamadi hand over blankets to a community member.
The Germiston branch of the Red Cross assisted 53 community members from the Makause informal settlement with blankets after they lost their belongings in a multiple shack fire, last Saturday. Here Titus Baloyi and Thomas Mufamadi hand over blankets to a community member.
The Germiston branch of the Red Cross assisted 53 community members from the Makause informal settlement with blankets after they lost their belongings in a multiple shack fire, last Saturday. Here Titus Baloyi and Thomas Mufamadi hand over blankets to a community member.
The Germiston branch of the Red Cross assisted 53 community members from the Makause informal settlement with blankets after they lost their belongings in a multiple shack fire, last Saturday. Here Titus Baloyi and Thomas Mufamadi hand over blankets to a community member.
Remains of a Makause informal settlement shack following a multiple shack fire, last Saturday.
The Germiston branch of the Red Cross assisted 53 community members from the Makause informal settlement with blankets after they lost their belongings in a multiple shack fire, last Saturday. Here Titus Baloyi and Thomas Mufamadi hand over blankets to a community member.
Little remains of 17 Makause informal settlement shacks following a multiple shack fire, last Saturday.
