By Betha Madhomu
Cape Town – A scrapyard fire in Pretoria destroyed over a dozen cars on Saturday afternoon.
The blaze began around 3pm at an outbuilding on Malie Street, Booysens.
Firefighters from multiple stations, including Philip Nel Park, Atteridgeville, Bosman, and others, were quickly deployed.
“Upon arrival, firefighters found that several vehicles in a scrapyard were on fire. They immediately began with firefighting operations and stopped the fire from spreading to a nearby factory,” the City of Tshwane’s Emergency Services Department said in a statement.
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They managed to extinguish the fire by 4:34pm and prevented it from reaching a nearby factory.
No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is still unknown.
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