Medical supplies and equipment go up in smoke at storage facility in Durban

Thousands worth of medical equipment supplies have gone up in flames after the fire razed storage facility belonging to Kwa-Dube medical supplies in Glenwood on Thursday.

went up in flames at a storage facility belonging to Kwa-Dube Medical in Glenwood, Durban, on Thursday.

The company’s sales director Shayne Hinton said employees alerted him about a fire in their adjoining storage facility. “I was doing my monthly reports in the main building which was unaffected. I ran down and we all tried to douse the fire ourselves using our extinguishers,” said Hinton. “There was a police officer who also came to assist us and, in an instant, the fire trucks came,” said Hinton.

He suspected the fire could have been a result of arson as the area has become a hotbed for vagrants.

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