GALLERY : House catches fire while the owner is buried
LINDEN- House catches fire while the owner is was being buried.
A house on 2nd Avenue in Linden, caught fire on 31 July, while the home owner was being buried.
The street was blocked by police vehicles and City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Services who attended to the scene as neighbours looked on. Bystanders were visibly shocked.
According to an eye witness who lives in the area, he saw smoke and rushed with his fire extinguisher. “When I got here, the house was burned down already and there was nothing I could do,” he said.
Another resident who claims to be a close friend of the family said, “I am really broken, it is shocking and ironic that the owner is being buried now, as we speak, and his house just burned down.”
According to EMS spokesperson Nana Radebe they received the call at 11:43am and they arrived on scene by 11:48 however, the damage was already done.
Radebe said they are not certain when the fire started.
“When we got here the roof had already collapsed,” she said. She also said there was a maid in the house and fortunately she was not hurt,” Radebe said.
Cause of the fire is unknown
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