Fire team reveals why it failed to rescue trapped family of six

BBC crew help rescue a calf trapped in thick clay in South Africa's Free State province.

Reps decry distant fire and rescue services
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THE Zanzibar government's plans to have more fire and rescue service stations on Unguja and Pemba islands remain unchanged, the House was informed on Tuesday. The Minister of State (Regional Administration and Special Departments), Mr Haji Omar ...
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Bitterly disappointing. These two words best describe the national senior cricket team’s performance in this year’s ICC Africa Twenty20 Division 1 championship in South Africa. 

VIDEO – Sonko Rescue Team Documentary…Sonko Continues to Win the Hearts of Nairobi Residents‘The essence of true leadership is to add value to the lives of those you lead during your period in leadership’. Those were the words of Nairobi senator Mike Sonko when he launched the Sonko Rescue Team.The philanthropic senator kicked off this year with one goal in mind; to focus more on service delivery to his constituents. True to his word, the Sonko rescue team has had an undeniable and most...

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Fikiri Salla, Fire and Rescue Force Acting Commissioner (Public Safety Division)
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Dar es salaam has a population of nearly five million but depends on only two fully fledged fire stations, which has severely crippled the Fire and Rescue Force's ability to respond effectively to disasters. As a result, the presence of the Fire and Rescue Force is ...

A South African rescue team flies to Nigeria to help locate missing South Africans believed to have been inside a church hostel when it collapsed.

>Not even the scorching sun could deter thousands of mourners who thronged the TPDF cemetery yesterday to pay their last respects to the six-member family that died in a blaze on Saturday night.

JK sends condolences after house fire kills six family members in Dar
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President Jakaya Kikwete has sent a condolence message to Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick following the weekend tragic death of six family members. The shocking incident occurred late Saturday night when a fire broke out in ...

No doubt acting out of curiosity, a reader emailed to ask me what the heading to this column, ‘Friendly Fire From Yesteryears,’ is intended to portray. How can fire be friendly, the fellow asked - perhaps bearing in mind such episodes as the Great Fire of London in 1666!