{"id":46847,"date":"2024-03-05T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/tragic-fire-claims-life-of-montague-village-boy-12-leaves-community-in-mourning-20240305\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:15:05","slug":"tragic-fire-claims-life-of-montague-village-boy-12-leaves-community-in-mourning-20240305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/tragic-fire-claims-life-of-montague-village-boy-12-leaves-community-in-mourning-20240305\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic fire claims life of Montague Village boy (12), leaves community in mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zane Fouten (12) perished in a devastating fire that swept through his Montague Village home on Monday 26 February.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The fire started in the early hours of the morning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He is described as a joker who had crept into everyone\u2019s hearts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Debris and a brick circle are the only evidence of a home that was once shared by a grandmother and her three grandchildren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bricks mark the spot where Zane Fouten (12) perished in a devastating fire that swept through his Montague Village home on Monday 26 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is very sad,\u201d local resident Marlene Bailey said, \u201chaving seen him play on Sunday and then on Monday to see his body being collected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living in the same street as the family, she said the children of the neighbourhood had taken the loss very hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe pain of losing one of our children in a fire is indescribable. Zane was one of our house children; he was in my daughter\u2019s class for two years. This fire took us back to a year ago, when others were also hurt in a fire and we never got over the pain . . . it is too much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing the boy, Bailey said he was a joker who had crept into everyone\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was the type of child who also had a lot of respect. My daughters are very traumatised and hurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>\u201cTeachers at their school ensured learners had a counselling session because every person feels the loss.\u201d<\/span> <span> Recalling the morning of the fire, Bailey said she woke up to <\/span> <span>shadowy red figures appearing in <\/span>the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_d123fb25\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11166\/f6ba72ea5fb54561a4386518836c7e6d.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/eeec66314b8d4d26bc18851e316411ca.jpg\" title=\"A 12-year-old boy died in a tragic fire on Monday 26 February. PHOTO: \"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">A 12-year-old boy died in a tragic fire on Monday 26 February. PHOTO: <\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fire started in the early hours of the morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the time, I only saw red and I thought it was perhaps the TV that wasn\u2019t switched off so I got up immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I switched the lights on, I saw the TV was off and the red flames were coming from that family\u2019s home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the rest of the family managed to get out in time, the teen succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis 16-year-old brother tried to save him from the flames . . . He managed to drag Zane to the front door but then the door fell onto his hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was so sad, the flesh hanging from his hands and Zane dying at the front door.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An attempt to save his brother\u2019s life will forever be etched in the teen\u2019s mind. He was still in hospital after suffering the severe burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jannicke Parsley (38), a next door neighbour, was luckily not home at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy husband and I were with a friend, walking home when we learned of the fire. When we arrived our place had been destroyed . . . we lost everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_9ba4f007\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11166\/6235fe818b714873848c1bd602320a51.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7e6834bebd00482da997385acdf7954c.jpg\" title=\"A teenager died in an early morning fire. PHOTO: \"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">A teenager died in an early morning fire. PHOTO: <\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An orange tent pitched next to the site is the couple\u2019s new home while they hope to rebuild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA friend gave us a tent, so we set it up next to the tree,\u201d Parsley said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be a burden to other people by moving in with others, so we prefer to sleep in the tent. But we do need material to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a social media post, Hillwood Primary School expressed its sadness over the loss of one of its learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe, the staff and learners of Hillwood Primary School would like to express our most heartfelt condolences to the Fouten family on the untimely passing of Zane.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community leader Mark Nicholson remembered the boy as someone who loved nature and books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was the clown in the class, so there were times that he had to come to our after-school programmes for disrupting the class with his jokes. He was a good listener, always laughing and happy even if you made him angry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss of a young life is very painful, he said. \u201cI\u2019m so sad, despite having his challenges he was an amazing boy. 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