South African Reserve Bank Fire Scare

SA Reserve Bank employees evacuated outside the building after a fire alarm went off on Tuesday morning in Pretoria Central.
Photo by @CityTshwane

One of the Tshwane Emergency Services trucks outside the Reserve bank building.
Photo by @CityTshwane

KUTLOANO MANKOANE

@Ceendeey 

Moments after the fire alarm went off, the South African Reserve Bank was caught in a tale of where there’s smoke there’s a fire. Employees were evacuated yesterday after a suspicion of there was smoke in the building’s 32nd floor. Tshwane Emergency Services hurried to the scene where employees were evacuated so that the fire fighters could extinguish what was suspected to be a fire. To their discovery no flames of fire were present. According to Johan Pieterse, Tshwane Emergency Services Spokesperson they could not find anything.

“We received an alarm that there was smoke at the Reserve Bank but upon our arrival of searching there was nothing. We went floor to floor but we still found nothing,” Pieterse said.

After raiding each floor the Tshwane Emergency Servers declared the building safe and sound and that is when employees were allowed back in the building. Up to this point no one knows what could have possibly caused the smell of smoke but Pieterse says the owners of the building will further investigate what may have triggered the alarm to go off.