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News24 reports that the names of the three firefighters who lost their lives on Wednesday in a blaze at a building in Johannesburg have been released by Public Safety MMC Michael Sun.
Twenty-eight-year-old Simphiwe Moropane is believed to be the first firefighter to have died in the tragedy, after he slipped and fell from the 23rd floor. He had run out of oxygen and had gone to the ledge to try to get air. The other two firefighters, 40-year-old Mduduzi Ndlovu and 37-year-old Kathutshelo Muedi, are believed to have died from lack of oxygen after they became trapped in the building. Mayor Herman Mashaba met with the families of the deceased at the Fairview fire station on Thursday. The fire in the Bank of Lisbon building - which housed the Gauteng departments of health, human settlements & cooperative government and traditional affairs - broke out on the 23rd floor on Wednesday. The National Education Health and Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and the Democratic Nursing Association of SA (Denosa) have each said that they reported safety issues in the building since 2014.
- Read this report by Canny Maphanga in full at News24
- Read too, 'The MEC must not lie,' Denosa charges about Joburg building fire, at News24
- And also, There are over 500 problem buildings in City of Joburg, warns Mashaba, at News24
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