A firefighter carries a person from the building to an ambulance at the scene of a fire in Johannesburg on Aug. 31, 2023. | Michele Spatari/AFP/Getty Images
Revelations 13:16-18 “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”
Important Takeaways:
- As many as 200 people may have been living in the building, witnesses said
- A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters, leaving at least 73 people dead early Thursday, emergency services in South Africa’s biggest city said.
- A witness said he saw people throwing babies out of the burning building in an attempt to save them and that at least one man died when he jumped from a window on the third floor and hit the concrete sidewalk “head first.”
- Seven of the victims were children, the youngest a 1-year-old, according to an emergency services spokesperson.
- Mulaudzi, the emergency services spokesperson, said the death toll was likely to increase and more bodies were probably trapped inside the building.
- The fire took three hours to contain, he said, and firefighters needed time to work through all five floors.
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