[RIVONIA] – Four injured following business fire.

Four people were left injured this afternoon after a fire broke out at a restaurant on Rivonia Road in Rivonia.

ER24 paramedics, along with the City of Johannesburg Fire Services and several other services, arrived on the scene shortly after 14h00 to find a restaurant well alight.

Fire Services began to battle the blaze while medics assessed the patients found on the scene.

After assessment, medics found that four patients had been injured, one of them critically.

The patients were treated for their injuries and the critically injured patient provided with advanced life support interventions. After treatment, the critically injured patient was airlifted to hospital by a private medical helicopter while the remaining patients were transported by ambulance.

The details surrounding this incident are not yet known but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.