House burnt down after grandmother forgot to switch off the stove
The children were at school when their grandmother forgot to switch off the stove that led to a huge fire.
FILE PICTURE: Firefighters in action. Picture: Alaister Russell
A house burnt down to ashes in KaNyamazane Ward 20, Mpumalanga, as a result of a stove that had been left on.
The house was a four-room 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 on Wednesday, Mpumalanga News reported.
“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 they called the ambulance and firefighters, 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 eyewitness said 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 had been no report of a house fire from KaNyamazane on that particular day.
The South African National Civil Organisation (Sanco) is planning to rebuild the house in a month’s time.
Ward councillor Lucky Sibiya, together with the ANC, handed out to the family food parcels.
– Caxton News Service
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