Emergency services EMS teams are on site at a building fire in the Johannesburg city centre on Friday morning.
City of Joburg EMS firefighters were alerted at 3am to a blaze at the corner of Bree and Harrison streets, the department said.
Initial assessments indicate the fire originated on the ground floor of a 16-storey building with residential and commercial sections but did not spread to other floors, said Joburg EMS.