{"id":46462,"date":"2026-05-10T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-wood-chipping-factory-completely-engulfed-in-howick\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:38:16","slug":"a-wood-chipping-factory-completely-engulfed-in-howick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-wood-chipping-factory-completely-engulfed-in-howick\/","title":{"rendered":"A wood chipping factory completely engulfed in Howick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS Control room received numerous calls for a factory on fire in Howick a short while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Midlands EMS Ambulances and Rescue divisions were dispatched along with Africa 911 Tactical.<\/p>\n<p>On crews arrival at the scene just above the Mandela Capture site they found a wood chipping factory completely engulfed.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately there were no injuries on scene as all the staff were off.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze is currently being extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>#MidlandsKZN <\/p>\n<p>Safety from Fire at the Workplace \/Business<\/p>\n<p>A wood chipping factory completely engulfed in Howickhttps:\/\/t.co\/7Ct7fpxi0C#ArriveAlive #BusinessFire @MidlandsEMS pic.twitter.com\/BkFJxwO7Oz<br \/>\n&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) May 10, 2026&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77302&#038;page=a-wood-chipping-factory-completely-engulfed-in-howick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS Control room received numerous calls for a factory on fire in Howick a short while ago. Midlands EMS Ambulances and Rescue divisions were dispatched along with Africa 911 Tactical. On crews arrival at the scene just above the Mandela Capture site they found a wood chipping factory completely engulfed. Fortunately there were no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46463,"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\/Screenshot%202026-05-10%20163843.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-05-10%20163843.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46462","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=46462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}