{"id":56095,"date":"2026-09-02T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-catches-fire-at-workshop-phoenix-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:35:00","slug":"vehicle-catches-fire-at-workshop-phoenix-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-catches-fire-at-workshop-phoenix-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Catches Fire At Workshop: Phoenix &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A silver Volkswagen Polo Vivo caught alight at a workshop in Phoenix &ndash; KZN yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, 01\/09\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) responded to the incident at approximately 17:20. According to employees, the vehicle had been brought to the workshop for servicing. A mechanic started the vehicle to move it when flames erupted from the engine compartment.<\/p>\n<p>Workshop employees extinguished the blaze using buckets of water, a hosepipe and a nearby fire hose. Reaction Officers arrived before Firefighters, but the fire had already been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78478&#038;page=vehicle-catches-fire-at-workshop-phoenix-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A silver Volkswagen Polo Vivo caught alight at a workshop in Phoenix &ndash; KZN yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, 01\/09\/2026). Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) responded to the incident at approximately 17:20. According to employees, the vehicle had been brought to the workshop for servicing. A mechanic started the vehicle to move it when flames erupted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56096,"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\/785462532_1520849983402089_3717825045133776685_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-56095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/785462532_1520849983402089_3717825045133776685_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095","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=56095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}