A GRANDMOTHER’S birthday celebration turned fatal in Tafelsig, Mitchell’s Plain, at the weekend, when the family's house burnt down, leaving one person dead.
The house in Wolfberg Street was destroyed when the fire broke out on Saturday evening.
Laylah Jumat, 38, said the one moment they were celebrating her mother Atonette Meyer’s 64th birthday, and the next, the whole house was engulfed in flames.
She said the fire started in one of the rooms after a wall plug exploded.
“The electricity went off, we punched in units then the plugs caught alight in the room.
“The wendy house at the back also burnt after the two rooms burnt.
“It was not that a flame was made, it was an electrical fault,” she said.
Jumat said strong winds fanned the flames,…
