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City of Johannesburg employees had to fend off a group of people trying to steal burnt cables while working to assess the damage caused by the fire under the M1.
Parts of Johannesburg were yesterday left without power as firefighters scrambled for more than 18 hours to put out a blaze that threatened to collapse the M1 highway double-decker bridge.
Extensive work will be needed to restore electricity in the inner city after the cables caught fire underground, Johannesburg City Power says.
Johannesburg emergency management services are attending to an underground fire reported in the early hours of Wednesday along the M1 near the north double-decker section.
Residents of Braamfontein, the CBD and Parktown are without electricity. It is not yet clear when their power will be restored but City Power teams were on site.