{"id":918274,"date":"2022-01-21T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/21\/update-13-people-rescued-from-burning-building-in-the-durban-cbd\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:30:24","slug":"update-13-people-rescued-from-burning-building-in-the-durban-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/update-13-people-rescued-from-burning-building-in-the-durban-cbd\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: 13 people rescued from burning building in the Durban CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Durban: Thirteen people have been rescued from a burning building in the Durban city centre on Friday, paramedics confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kyle van Reenen from Emer-G-Med Paramedics they were treated for injuries ranging from minor to moderate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cNo children were found or injured. No fatalities were reported,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started in building Pixley Kaseme (West Street) where many Chinese traders operate from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"baobab-embedded-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bb7947ac-1219-579d-94c2-43b754089609&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x0&#038;resize=1600x900.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\"><figcaption>A high-angle rescue system is being used. Picture: Emer-G-Med<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The scene is still active. <\/p>\n<p>Van Reenen said smoke could be seen billowing out of the building. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFirefighters are busy with a high angle rescue system,\u201d Van Reenen said.<\/p>\n<p>Garrith Jamieson from ALS Paramedics said one person was currently being treated on scene. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are believed to be more casualities,\u201d Jamieson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"baobab-embedded-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/44a906b3-a634-576a-a245-957f0cb667df&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x0&#038;resize=1600x900.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\"><figcaption>More people are believed to be trapped. Picture: Emer-G-Med <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-e3b045fcfe0c02db161506e44702ae76\"> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban: Thirteen people have been rescued from a burning building in the Durban city centre on Friday, paramedics confirmed. According to Kyle van Reenen from Emer-G-Med Paramedics they were treated for injuries ranging from minor to moderate. \u201cNo children were found or injured. No fatalities were reported,\u201d he said. The fire started in building Pixley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}