The Citizen reports that a mattress factory has been destroyed by a fire in Tshwane.

The City of Tshwane’s Emergency Services (TES) responded to the incident just after 1:30am on Wednesday morning, at the factory in Sunderland Ridge, Tshwane. TES spokesperson Charles Mabaso said the call centre dispatched resources from four fire stations after receiving multiple calls that the factory was engulfed by fire. “Firefighters arrived on the scene and immediately performed exposure protection to nearby buildings and conducted forcible entry to gain access into the burning building for firefighting operations. Drums containing unspecified quantities of a chemical substance, Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate, were saved from the blaze,” Mabaso said. A fire officer was treated for minor to moderate injuries after slipping and falling during the firefighting operations.

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