{"id":919087,"date":"2022-01-24T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/no-foul-play-suspected-in-waterkloof-air-force-base-inferno-says-sandf\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:08:01","slug":"no-foul-play-suspected-in-waterkloof-air-force-base-inferno-says-sandf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/no-foul-play-suspected-in-waterkloof-air-force-base-inferno-says-sandf\/","title":{"rendered":"No foul play suspected in Waterkloof Air Force Base inferno, says SANDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/0a7199aa-c697-5f7b-82b0-0a3e98bc3a6c&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x38&#038;resize=680x383.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria \u2013 The SANDF said on Monday that no foul play was suspected to be involved in the inferno that gutted parts of the Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember this is a military area. It is a restricted area. There is no way a person can come in here and do any foul play without being seen or detected. So there is no foul play whatsoever,\u201d SANDF spokesperson Brigadier-General Andries Mahapa told TV channel eNCA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mahapa said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can give an assurance to South Africans, that everything is in good hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, the SANDF said the inferno which broke out at the bulk fuel depot within the Air Force Base Waterkloof had been extinguished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fire contained at Air Force Base Waterkloof on Sunday https:\/\/t.co\/dhyBKxGML9<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pretoria News (@pretorianews) January 24, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SANDF said the fire broke out at around 7pm and was contained within an hour by SA Air Force firefighting teams from Air Force Base Waterkloof and Air Force Base Swartkops in Valhalla, Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the fire, the magnitude of the damage and the cost of the damage to the bulk fuel depot will form part of an investigation that will interrogate all events and\/or incidents that might have led to the fire breakout at the base,\u201d the SANDF said on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, Mahapa said the initial assessment indicated that the fire started at a petrol pump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cNone of the tanks were affected, there was no explosion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire at the Air Force Base Waterkloof caused a social media frenzy after recent attacks at other national key points including the arson attack at Parliament in Cape Town and the \u201chammer attack\u201d vandalism at the Constitutional Court in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-38919af2a42ac76fd7a50538bf65e130\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria \u2013 The SANDF said on Monday that no foul play was suspected to be involved in the inferno that gutted parts of the Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria at the weekend. \u201cRemember this is a military area. It is a restricted area. There is no way a person can come in here and [&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-919087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919087","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=919087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}