Man burnt to death in his Victory Park home
VICTORY PARK – Residents of Victory Park are mourning the loss of one of their residents after a man was killed in a fire in his home earlier this morning.
The community of Victory Park is fuming after a resident was killed in a house fire in the area.
According to a post in the Linden Community News Facebook group, emergency services did not arrive in time to save the man’s life. It is believed that he was trapped inside the house that was engulfed in flames, caused by an explosion.
Three men from the area attempted to rescue the man from the blaze, however, the flames proved too much to deal with and they were unable to save the man from the fire.
The Facebook post stated, “The three men had to get out the house as it got worse and they could not breath or get to the man. This man could have survived if the fire brigade didn’t come over an hour after we called.”
Nana Radebe, spokesperson for Johannesburg Emergency Services told the Rosebank Killarney Gazette that the fire engine at the Roosevelt Park Fire Station was broken and unable to attend the scene of the fire.
Radebe said, “We sent out a skip unit from the station but the amount of water carried by the skip unit was not sufficient enough to put the fire out. By the time that the fire engines dispatched from Joburg Central and Hunters Hill had arrived at the scene, the man was already declared dead.”
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Spokesperson at Linden Police Station Captain Walter Spencer, said that an inquest docket has been opened at Linden Police Station.
Spencer said, “Police arrived at the scene of the fire at about 5.15am.”
Radebe said that the fire was reported to them at about 4.55am on 11 May and the fire engines arrived to the scene at about 6.10am.
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