By Chanel September
A fire tender rushing from Mitchell's Plain to assist at a fire in Salt River collided with a taxi in Westridge, killing a passenger and seriously injuring several other people.
The fire engine was rushing to the fire after staff and engines at the Salt River and Central Fire Stations proved too few to fight the blaze.
One taxi passenger was killed, four were critically hurt and one seriously injured in the accident shortly before 7pm on Saturday.
The fire, in the factory of a cabinet-making firm in Frere Street, Charles Miller Cabinetmakers, required four pump trucks and two hydraulic platforms.
The cause of the fire at the factory, which gutted the building, has not yet been established and investigations continue.
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