Twenty people were left displaced after several informal structures were destroyed in a fire in Belhar yesterday afternoon. According to the City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service Spokesperson Jermaine Carelse, local firefighters managed to contain and extinguish the blaze that destroyed approximately seven informal structures. Two women suffered[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis Not even a week after a fire ripped through the Phola Park Informal settlement in Phillipi, killing a woman and leaving hundreds displaced, residents have had to brace themselves for yet another tragedy after over 100 informal dwellings were destroyed in a blaze shortly after 14h00[…]
Residents affected by a devastating blaze in Polar Park informal settlement in Phillippi, Cape Town, said they do not know where to turn as they have lost everything. In a tragic start to the new year, a fire ripped through the shacks in the informal settlement in the early hours[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis As citizens usher in the New Year, tragic scenes are playing out in Phola Park, Phillipi where a woman died in an early morning fire. According to the City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service, close to 200 structures were destroyed leaving almost 1 000[…]
About 360 people have been left homeless after a fire swept through a section of Du Noon in Cape Town. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security in the City of Cape Town, JP Smith, says 120 structures were destroyed. He says no fatalities were recorded but two firefighters sustained[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis A family of three, including a minor, has died in an early morning blaze in an informal settlement in Khayelitsha. According to the City’s Fire and Rescue Service, officials were alerted at about 05:10 that a structure was on fire opposite the Chuma Primary School in[…]
Cape Town Fire and Rescue says a fire which erupted when a transformer exploded next to the Somerset Mall late on Wednesday evening has been extinguished. Spokesperson Jermaine Carelse says people on the adjacent N2 highway saw the transformer on fire and raised the alarm. Carelse says firefighters doused the[…]
A woman and her child have died after a structure caught alight at Kensington in Cape Town. Fire and Rescue spokesperson Jermaine Carelse says the victims were trapped inside the structure when the fire broke out. He says three other people were also left homeless. Carelse says the cause of[…]
LOCAL The DA says it will challenge parliament’s decision to not find suitable venues after a fire gutted two of its main buildings in January. DA chief whip Siviwe Gwarube noted it has been more than 10 months since the fire and that, besides the criminal investigation, little to no[…]
INTERNATIONAL The Turkish President, on Friday, conveyed his condolences to the “friendly and brotherly Palestinian people” over the death of 21 Palestinians after a fire ripped through a building in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu News Agency reports. “We are deeply saddened by the death of 21 Palestinian brothers, including children, in the[…]
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