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It’s understood a mattress caught fire, spreading to hundreds of shacks.
Peter Sebola was shocked after seeing the informal settlement his son left home to live in.
The father says he had hoped he would still find his son alive when he arrived at the informal settlement.
The programme will be rolled out in other areas including Denver informal settlement and Alexandra.
Emergency Services have responded to four different shack fires in Johannesburg today.
More than 400 homes were destroyed when a fire broke out in the informal settlement at the weekend.
A blaze tore through an informal settlement at the weekend, destroying 400 homes.
Officials say at least 14 shacks were destroyed by the blaze at the informal settlement.