Fire breaks out at Durban CBD building
A huge fire that tore through part of the ground floor of the old Lonsdale Hotel in the Durban CBD has been extinguished.
Fire fighters are now dampening down hotspots at the multi-storey building at the corner of Gillespie Street and Dr Pixley KaSeme Street, that is the old West Street.
Emergency services are currently on scenes at the Lonsdale Hotel - now an MUT res - where a fire broke out this morning @ECR_Newswatch #lonsdalefire pic.twitter.com/mE5PhgQEYb
— Bernadette Wolhuter (@bernwolhuter) April 11, 2018
Metro police spokesperson, Parboo Sewpersad says traffic is still being redirected.
"The firefighters are busy working on the scene, the building has been evacuated. There is no congestion, the road is closed on Dr. Pixley ka Seme, that's West Street, between OR Tambo and Mahatma Ghandi," he said.
Rescue Care's Garrith Jamieson says people from inside the building were evacuated earlier and no injuries have been reported.
An MUT student was one of them.