Fire Ops on the scene where a fire allegedly started by one of the tenants, who threw a cigarette at a stack of tyres in the back yard. (Alfonso Nqunjana/News24)
A hijacked house in Blairgowrie, Johannesburg, that had been without water for the past 10 days, caught fire on Tuesday morning.
Quick-thinking neighbours responded to the blaze with swimming pool water before firefighters arrived.
Private firefighting service Fire Ops SA tackled the fire because the City of Johannesburg's Randburg Fire Station, which is less than 100 meters away from the scene, could not be reached as it does not have a working phone.
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