{"id":998820,"date":"2022-02-21T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/family-loses-everything-as-fire-razed-entire-shack-retired-nurses-step-in\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:17:45","slug":"family-loses-everything-as-fire-razed-entire-shack-retired-nurses-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/family-loses-everything-as-fire-razed-entire-shack-retired-nurses-step-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Family loses everything as fire razed entire shack. Retired nurses step in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A wild fire left\u00a0Miliswa Williams and her six children with nothing. Their shack in New Brighton in the Eastern Cape was totally burnt leaving nothing to salvage.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Region Retired Nurses Organisation (WRRNO) stepped in on Saturday and donated groceries, clothes and cutlery to the family.<\/p>\n<p>Williams said the fire was close to her children\u2019s beds but she managed to get them out of the house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe managed to escape but we could not save anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went back to save some of our stuff with my brother and sister but the flames had reached the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not know how the fire started but suspect a candle might be the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have electricity and my brother said he blew the candle out, but accidents do happen,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>She sobbed outside the burnt house on Saturday but said she was grateful they were all still alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have odd jobs but I am unemployed. The stress caused my face to swell as I have high blood pressure,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>The community has helped the family rent another shack but the WRRNO saw the family\u2019s plight on social media.<\/p>\n<p>WRRNO chair Nonkululeko Mshweshwe said they were happy to help.<\/p>\n<p>Mshweshwe said they were going to make more donations to the family and this was only their first donation.<\/p>\n<p>They were going to communicate with the New Brighton Retired Nurses Organisation to partner with them.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.heraldlive.co.za\/news\/2022-02-21-retired-nurses-step-in-to-help-family-after-fire-guts-shack\/<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: NewsReloaded (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wild fire left\u00a0Miliswa Williams and her six children with nothing. Their shack in New Brighton in the Eastern Cape was totally burnt leaving nothing to salvage. The Western Region Retired Nurses Organisation (WRRNO) stepped in on Saturday and donated groceries, clothes and cutlery to the family. Williams said the fire was close to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998820","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=998820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}