FILE PICTURE: Firefighters in action. Picture: Alaister Russell
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.
– Caxton News Service
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