Overloaded plug may have caused fatal blaze
An overloaded wall plug allegedly triggered the fire at a KZN home which resulted in the deaths of a couple and their daughter.
|||Durban - An overloaded wall plug apparently triggered the fire at a Ladysmith home which resulted in the deaths of a couple and their daughter.
This is the finding in the preliminary forensics report.
Anesh Ramnarain, 38, an Eskom civil engineer, his wife Nirvasha, 34, and child Diakasha, 5, died of smoke inhalation last month.
The couple’s other child, Shirdika, 7, who spent two days in the intensive care unit of La Verna Private Hospital before she was transferred to Chatsmed Hospital in Chatsworth, has been discharged from hospital and is recuperating at a relative’s home.
According to the forensic report, the most intense heat was in the vicinity of the air conditioner and lounge area.
A lounge suite was destroyed by the fire.
The Ramnarains had rented the home for the past eight years.
Their landlord, Niron Singh, told Post this week that Anesh and his wife were “fantastic people”.
“I attended the funeral in Durban. Thirty members of the temple where Anesh and Nirvasha were devotees were also at the funeral.”
“Anesh had signed a new lease for a year last month,” said Singh.
He added that Anesh had asked him permission to install an air conditioner on January 5.
“I can’t say when the air conditioner was installed.”
“I approved his request by sending him a message on his cellphone.”
The account of the fire as it appeared in Post.
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