Supermarket giant OK Zimbabwes warehouse in Graniteside, Harare, was yesterday gutted by fire, destroying goods and groceries worth thousands of dollars.
By the time a NewsDay crew got to the site, nothing had been salvaged from the raging fire with the Fire Brigade battling to extinguish the inferno, which had swamped the building. The exact value of the goods destroyed could not be ascertained by the time of going to print.
The origins of the fire could also not be immediately established.
According to eyewitnesses, the fire started at around 12:45pm at the back of the warehouse, which is adjoined to the firms headquarters, and spread to the front before engulfing the entire warehouse.
We were sitting across the road when we saw fire at the back of the warehouse, but it was not this huge. After some time the Fire Brigade team came, but the fire was spreading really fast and before we knew it, the whole building was up in flames, said an eyewitness Tatenda Goto, adding the Fire Brigade took about 30 minutes to arrive.
The Fire Brigade team has been here but they have not done much to put out the fire.
OK Zimbabwe marketing and public relations manager Chipo Mashingaidze, who was also at the scene, said they were still to establish the origins of the fire.
This just happened and we have just arrived. We are still investigating, so until we establish what really happened I cannot say much, she said.
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