Joburg cbd fire
Firefighters extinguish Joburg CBD building fire
EMS spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi said the blaze appeared to have started in a cellphone shop on the ground floor of a residential property.
Firefighters extinguished the inferno and helped six people who were stuck on the roof to safety.
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.
One person is recovering in hospital after he jumped off the building when the blaze broke out on Saturday night from the 8th floor.
It’s understood the fire broke out on Saturday night on the corner of Joubert and commissioner street.
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.
[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.
Union leaders along with representatives from the South African Federation of Trade Unions addressed the media on Thursday about the Lisbon Bank building fire that killed three of their colleagues in the CBD earlier this month.
The Public Servants Association has taken the Departments of Health and Public Works to court over a Pretoria building, claiming it fails to meet minimum safety standards.
Simphiwe Moropane, who fell to his death while battling a blaze at a government building in the Joburg CBD, will be buried on Friday.
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.
A memorial service for the three firefighters who died in the Bank of Lisbon building fire was held at the Ellis Park Arena in downtown Johannesburg on 13 September 2018.
Joburg firefighter Themba Tshemese recalls having to enter the Bank of Lisbon building to recover the bodies of his three colleagues who died while extinguishing the blaze in the building.
A memorial service is currently underway at the Ellis Park Arena in downtown Johannesburg exactly a week after that blaze engulfed the top floors of the bank of Lisbon building.
The firemen lost their lives exactly a week ago when an inferno engulfed the top floors of the Lisbon Bank building in the CBD.