POLOKWANE – Fire fighters and emergency workers responded to the scene of a house fire in Jaipur Street, Nirvana on Friday afternoon. The house is rented out to at least seven families and it is reported the fire started in the part of the house where a mother lives with her two children.
Eye-witnesses told Review that the mother was not at home and that only the children, aged five and nine months old, were in the house with a caretaker when the fire started.
The caretaker spoke to Review and said the eldest child alerted her to a fire in the bedroom where the baby was sleeping. She ran outside to alert neighbours who upon seeing the smoke and flames rushed to the house and broke the bedroom window to rescue the baby.
No injures have been reported.
The house has been gutted and has left the families without a roof over their heads.
One of the occupants of the house, Kenneth Mndefu says the fire has left them homeless. “We don’t know the way forward now because the house is badly burned. Now we have to find out where we’re going to sleep. Where we will find food and clothes to wear?”
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