{"id":44654,"date":"2026-03-07T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/firefighters-extinguished-a-massive-fire-that-broke-out-at-china-mall-in-springfield-north-of-durban\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:01:20","slug":"firefighters-extinguished-a-massive-fire-that-broke-out-at-china-mall-in-springfield-north-of-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/firefighters-extinguished-a-massive-fire-that-broke-out-at-china-mall-in-springfield-north-of-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters extinguished a massive fire that broke out at China Mall in Springfield, north of Durban."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters from eThekwini Fire Services Directorate worked tirelessly through the early hours of this morning to extinguish a massive fire that broke out at China Mall in Springfield, north of Durban.<\/p>\n<p>At around 02:10, the City&rsquo;s Emergency Services Directorate received a distress call, prompting the immediate deployment of more than 25 firefighters, supported by teams from four northern fire stations.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived on scene to find a fierce blaze already tearing through the complex.<\/p>\n<p>Despite intense heat, heavy smoke, and rapidly collapsing structures, rescue teams fought relentlessly for several hours to contain the inferno. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 14 trading units were affected, with 12 completely destroyed and two severely damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the devastation, the City can confirm that no injuries or fatalities have been reported, a relief credited to the swift response and bravery of the emergency teams on scene.<\/p>\n<p>The operation remains active, with Fire and Emergency Services,&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76674&#038;page=firefighters-extinguished-a-massive-fire-that-broke-out-at-china-mall-in-springfield-north-of-durban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters from eThekwini Fire Services Directorate worked tirelessly through the early hours of this morning to extinguish a massive fire that broke out at China Mall in Springfield, north of Durban. At around 02:10, the City&rsquo;s Emergency Services Directorate received a distress call, prompting the immediate deployment of more than 25 firefighters, supported by teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44655,"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\/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-03-07%20at%2004_53_06.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-03-07%20at%2004_53_06.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654","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=44654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}