{"id":55661,"date":"2026-08-07T17:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fire-incident-corner-of-mooi-and-kerk-streets\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:26:38","slug":"fire-incident-corner-of-mooi-and-kerk-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fire-incident-corner-of-mooi-and-kerk-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Incident Corner of Mooi and Kerk Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency Management Services firefighters rapidly responded to a fire incident at corner of Mooi and Kerk streets in the Johannesburg CBD.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported to EMS shortly before 6:00 A.M. this morning. At this stage, there are no confirmed reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started on the second floor of the building and has since been contained.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters remain on scene conducting overhaul operations and monitoring for hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>EMS Inspectors are on scene and will commence investigations as soon as all fire operations are concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Johannesburg are urged to remain cautious when using electrical appliances.<\/p>\n<p>Xolile Khumalo<\/p>\n<p>Media Liaison Officer<br \/>\nCity of Johannesburg<br \/>\nEmergency Management Services<\/p>\n<p>Fire Incident Corner of Mooi and Kerk Streetshttps:\/\/t.co\/ZMmnlH3Bro#ArriveAlive #RoadSafety @CityofJoburgEMS @BurnshieldZA pic.twitter.com\/xhCzqbzjmN&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) August 7, 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=78215&#038;page=fire-incident-corner-of-mooi-and-kerk-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency Management Services firefighters rapidly responded to a fire incident at corner of Mooi and Kerk streets in the Johannesburg CBD. The fire was reported to EMS shortly before 6:00 A.M. this morning. At this stage, there are no confirmed reports of injuries. The fire started on the second floor of the building and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661","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=55661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}