{"id":43741,"date":"2026-02-06T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/firefighters-respond-to-early-morning-fire-incident-at-bree-and-harrison\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:23:21","slug":"firefighters-respond-to-early-morning-fire-incident-at-bree-and-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/firefighters-respond-to-early-morning-fire-incident-at-bree-and-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters Respond to Early Morning Fire Incident at Bree and Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) firefighters responded to a fire incident at approximately 03:00 this morning at the corner of Bree and Harrison Streets in the Johannesburg CBD.<\/p>\n<p>Initial assessments indicate that the fire originated in a secluded City Power utility room on the ground floor, which houses a large transformer. The utility room is separate from the main sixteen-storey building that contains both residential and commercial sections.<\/p>\n<p>The fire did not spread to the main building or to any other floors.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews initiated swift suppression operations, and the fire was successfully extinguished. EMS teams remain on scene conducting damping-down operations to prevent any possible re-ignition.<\/p>\n<p>The transformer is suspected to have caused the fire. The exact cause will be confirmed following a full investigation once all emergency operations have been completed.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>All enquiries relating to the transformer will&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76373&#038;page=firefighters-respond-to-early-morning-fire-incident-at-bree-and-harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) firefighters responded to a fire incident at approximately 03:00 this morning at the corner of Bree and Harrison Streets in the Johannesburg CBD. Initial assessments indicate that the fire originated in a secluded City Power utility room on the ground floor, which houses a large transformer. The utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/629817996_1329405955899727_7361331701362109603_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/629817996_1329405955899727_7361331701362109603_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}