Double blow for Mallanna Family

The Mallanna and Mungroo family have been dealt another fateful blow recently when ambi Mallana, who having survived a recent house fire where her granddaughter died, also passed away.

"I was under the impression that my mother would pull through after she survived the house fire, that tragically took her granddaughter, but it seems that the fight was too much,"said her don Tom Mallanna fighting back tears, as he shook his head in disbelief, during the memorial services of his mother." I don't think that our family can stand another blow like this," he cried.

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New recruits battle blaze

The eight newly appointed 'training' Public Safety officers were fitted and armed with fire fighting gear and were thrown into the deep end, when a house-fire was called in.

Afiery blaze had ripped through one of the small houses in the Steadville, J-section and needed immediate fire-fighting attention.

Under the watch-full eye of training fire-fighter Allan Du Plooy, from Rural metro,the boys and girls armed with fire-fighting equipment got to experience what i is like to extinguish a house fire.

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