Lusanda Bill
3 August 2010
Marie Brankhorst who is the food manager at the Pieter Wessels Old Age Home in Dunnotter on the East Rand was a hero on Sunday night, when she saved fifteen elderly people from the blaze.
On Sunday night the home caught fire which led to eighteen elderly people killed.
Marie Brankhorst was quoted as saying “You could hear them crying and calling out in the darkness. It was pitch dark. I had them lie on sheets and dragged them down the corridor and out the exit.”
Bronkhorst has been working at the home for thirty years and it has been reported that of the elderly people she saved twelve were confined to their beds and three could walk only with assistance.
She said “I tried to pull him from the bed, but he was too heavy and I pulled the sheet out from under him. Later I called a fireman and my husband. The fireman picked him up and carried him out.”
An investigation is still underway; investigators were on the scene the whole day trying to put the pieces together.
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