ANA reports that two firefighters injured during the fatal Bank of Lisbon building fire in the Johannesburg CBD two months ago were discharged from Milpark Hospital on Monday.  

They had been in hospital since the September fire which claimed the lives of three of their colleagues.  Eight firefighters were hospitalised with various degrees of injuries, but six of them were discharged within a week.  It took three days to extinguish the blaze in the 23-storey building, which had housed the offices of the provincial departments of health, human settlements, and cooperative governance and traditional affairs.  Speaking outside the hospital, the two firefighters said they drew a lot of strength from their families and their superiors and colleagues at Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS).  They will be receiving physiotherapy on an out-patient basis.  EMS spokesperson Nana Radebe indicated:  “We will just give them time to heal properly before they come back [to work].”  The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

• The original of this short report is at The Citizen
• Read too, Recovering firefighters struggling to deal with trauma of Joburg CBD fire, at EWN

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