{"id":511294,"date":"2023-10-12T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=511294"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:55:25","slug":"fire-at-sabc-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/511294-fire-at-sabc-headquarters.html","title":{"rendered":"Fire at SABC headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has confirmed that a fire broke out at its headquarters in Auckland Park on Thursday, 12 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared with the media at around 14:00, the public broadcaster said the fire had been contained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staff members have been evacuated from the affected building and an investigation into what caused the fire is also underway.&#8221; the SABC said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contingency measures are being implemented and the safety of all employees is prioritised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement follows several users posting about a fire at the Radio Park offices on Twitter\/X earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>City of Joburg Emergency Services (EMS) spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertMulaudzi\/status\/1712436806870765609\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Robert Mulaudzi tweeted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that firefighters were investigating reports of a fire incident in the building.<\/p>\n<p>He posted several images and videos of the firefighting team on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>News Live SA also tweeted a picture of firefighting trucks in what appeared to be Radio Park&#8217;s parking lot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joburg Emergency Services are on scene of a fire incident at the SABC&#8217;s Auckland Park offices in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is believed to be at the Radio Park section. It is not yet clear what started the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Staff have been evacuated and there are no reports at this stage of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5gWwbQrrcq\">pic.twitter.com\/5gWwbQrrcq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 News Live SA (@newslivesa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newslivesa\/status\/1712439907942105212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mulaudzi said it seemed as though the fire started in the elevator &#8220;pit area&#8221; on the ground floor and had not caused further damage to the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters are currently clearing all the debris and extinguishing the hot spots,&#8221; Mulaudzi said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KayaNews\/status\/1712443226848678166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kaya 959 News reported<\/strong><\/a> the fire was fuelled by debris in the basement area.<\/p>\n<p>A fire previously broke out in Radio Park&#8217;s canteen and forced an evacuation in June 2019, with nine employees hospitalised for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>It followed another evacuation from the same building a month earlier after a diesel tank overflowed, causing a large spillage and chemical fumes drifting in the offices.<\/p>\n<p>The building remained sealed for several days to clean the 2,000 litres of spilt fuel.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/511204-dstvs-supersport-breaking-the-law-openview-launches-fresh-court-fight.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">DStv&#8217;s SuperSport &#8220;breaking the law&#8221; \u2014 Openview launches fresh court fight<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The building previously suffered a canteen fire and major diesel spillage in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":511300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[30742,73416,6863,53599,89970,89972,361],"class_list":["post-511294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-auckland-park","tag-city-of-joburg-coj","tag-fire","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-park","tag-robert-mulaudzi","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511302,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511294\/revisions\/511302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}