On 5 September 2018, a fire raged through the old Bank of Lisbon building for three days; three firefighters lost their lives. After three years, no report on the incident has been released. Eyewitness News takes a look back at what happened and whether enough has been done to prevent another tragedy like this one. #BankofLisbonFire
Sunday marked three years since three Joburg firefighters died while trying to douse the flames which started on the 23rd floor and yet their families are none the wiser as to what went wrong and who should take the blame.
Hundreds of Joburgers witnessed the building being demolished on Sunday morning after its structure was declared unsafe.
People from near and far gathered in the Joburg CBD to witness the demolition of the Bank of Lisbon building on Sunday morning.
The Bank of Lisbon Building has been demolished after it was deemed structurally unfit following a fire which lasted three days in 2018, and claimed the lives of three firefighters.
The building was deemed structurally unfit following a fire which lasted three days last year and claimed the lives of three firefighters.
Mduduzi Ndlovu, Simphiwe Moropana and Khathutshelo Muedi died in September last year while trying to extinguish the fire which broke out on the 23rd floor of the building.
Three firefighters died while battling the blaze which started on the 23rd floor in September last year.
The father of a firefighter who died while battling a blaze at the Bank of Lisbon building says the structure will be demolished without any answers as to how his son fell to his death.
Family, friends and colleagues gathered in the Joburg CBD to commemorate three firefighters who lost their lives in a blaze at the Bank of Lisbon building one year ago.
On Thursday morning, families of the three firefighters who lost their lives will go back to the Bank of Lisbon building for a commemoration ceremony.
It follows a deadly fire in September that claimed the lives of three firefighters who tried to douse the flames.
In September last year, Simphiwe Moropane, Mduduzi Ndlovu and Khathutshelo Muedi died while trying to extinguish a blaze which started on the 23rd floor in the Johannesburg CBD.
The Gauteng government says that its staff who worked at the Bank of Lisbon building which was damaged in a fire will be moved to a new office space leased by the private sector early next year.
Two of the firefighters injured in the incident were discharged from the Milpark Hospital on Tuesday.
Livhuwani Maumela and Moleko Bereng spent two months at the Milpark Hospital recovering from extensive burn wounds to their hands which they sustained while battling the fire.
The road to recovery will be a long and testing one for Moleko Bereng and Livhuwani Maumela but they remain positive and hope to return to the jobs they love soon.
[WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES] It's been two months since the deadly fire in Johannesburg that claimed the lives of three firefighters. Two of their colleagues are still in hospital recovering from extensive burn wounds to their hands. EWN visited them in hospital.
