The house was a four-roomed house where an elderly woman lived with her two grandchildren. The children were at school when their grandmother forgot to switch off the stove which led to a huge fire.
“By the time the fire was noticed, it had escalated so much that it was hard to put it down,” said ANC Youth League branch chairperson, Dumisani Ngomane.
He said that they called the ambulance and fire fighters, but there was nothing they could do since the fire had escalated. No one was injured and the family has now been taken to family relatives.
An eye witness said that the fire department was there, but could not bring the fire down as the water machines were not working. A Mpumalanga News reporter spoke to the fire department and they said there was no house on fire report from KaNyamazane on that particular day.
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