[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.
The DA has opened a case against three Gauteng MECs and the heads of four provincial government departments saying they should be implicated for the loss of life at the Bank of Lisbon building.
Joburg Emergency Service Nana Radebe says they will continue putting their lives on line to save those in danger.
A Joburg firefighter who was one the first people at the scene of last week’s deadly fire in the city centre has described to Eyewitness News how he tried in vain to save three of his colleagues.
Members of the Johannesburg Emergency Services, metro police, paramedics and various private and public sector security companies gathered at the Bank of Lisbon building to honour the lives of three fighters who died while battling a blaze in the city centre.
The fire broke out on the 23rd floor of the building on Wednesday last week and damaged as many as nine other floors in the building.
This comes after the Lisbon building in Johannesburg caught fire on Wednesday, leaving three firefighters dead.
Three firefighters died on Wednesday while trying to put out the flames at the building which housed several government departments.
Three firefighters died on Wednesday while trying to put out the flames at the building which housed several government departments.
Gauteng Infrastructure Development MEC Jacob Mamabolo says they will get to the bottom of this week's tragedy.
Human Settlement MEC Uhuru Moiloa says government is taking the safety of people working in the city seriously.
The party says it’s taken the decision as a precaution a day after the blaze claimed the lives of three firefighters.
The city's firefighters are still battling to contain and completely extinguish the fire, prompting Mayor Herman Mashaba to call on firefighting departments from neighbouring metros to help.
The Lisbon Building, which houses several government departments, has been burning since Thursday.
Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane made the comments at a briefing on the outcomes of the cabinet meeting in Pretoria today.
Several questions have been raised after the fire in the building which was home to the departments of Health and Human Settlements.
The blaze started on Wednesday on the 23rd floor of the building which houses the Departments of Health, Human Settlements and Cogta.
The fire broke out on Wednesday at the bank of Lisbon building, which is the Home to the health and human settlements departments.
