Families escape after fire destroys Montclair home
A house has burned
down in Montclair, south of Durban.
Fire crews spent several hours dousing the flames on Glen Road on Monday morning.
eThekwini's Fire's Craig Peters said the blaze had spread to the roof of the house when officials arrived.
He said a car on the property was also alight.
"Our first team deployed attacked the fire from two ends of the property, and we also got an additional team from Congella, and we found a number of gas cylinders," said Peters.
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"A couple of them had already exploded."
Peters says no one was hurt.
"So, you have the house and then the lower section. So, it looked like there were multiple families living there.
"According to the owner, everyone was evacuated. We confirmed that after we had done the secondary search, once the flames were doused."
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