Six people died in two separate fires in Cape Town on Friday night. City of Cape Town spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said four people died in Bonteheuwel and four others sustained varying degrees of burn wounds when a fire broke out at a house in Vyeboom Street. “The city’s fire &[…]
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen Earlier today, the Fire and Rescue Service of the City of Cape Town received a call regarding a grass fire outside an abandoned building on Connaught Road in Beaconvale. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered a storage facility on fire, which was emitting thick black smoke. The City’s Fire[…]
by Loushe Jordaan Gilbert The City of Cape Town has confirmed that three people died in a fire related incident in the early hours of Monday morning. The City’s Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said six informal structures were destroyed, leaving several destitute in Fisantekraal. “At approximately 00h50[…]
The City of Cape Town says it was shocked after firefighters were shot at in two separate incidents this week. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says they responded to a structural fire at Uitsig where they were also stoned. He says a crew also came under[…]
A fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town killing more than 100 people was blamed on “gross negligence” and lack of safety measures, the results of a government investigation into the disaster said, Reuters reports. The investigation results, announced at a news conference on Sunday by[…]
The Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says he plans to institute a Committee of Inquiry into the cause of the fire at a building in the Johannesburg CBD. More than 70 including 12 children were killed in the fire. The fire broke out in the hijacked five-storey building in Marshalltown on Thursday[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert Residents in New Woodlands Mitchell’s Plain are reeling from shock after four people tragically died in their home on Sunday evening. New Woodlands Mitchells Plain Neighbourhood Watch Chairperson Shahiem Van Nelson said the community were all still trying to deal with the shock, however they believe[…]
A fire at a hotel in the Muslim holy city of Makkah killed at least eight Pakistani pilgrims and injured six others on Friday, a month before the annual Hajj pilgrimage is set to begin. In a statement, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said: “We have reports of eight deaths and six[…]
By Lee-Yandra Paulsen Two people died in a fire on Friday night, in Tafelsig. City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue were alerted about the fire just before midnight. According to firefighters, when they arrived on the scene two residential places were alight and several people were suffering from smoke[…]
Two of the three mountain fires in the Cape Winelands have been contained. The District Municipal Spokesperson, Anesca Roodt, says they’ve made good progress in their effort to deal with the fires in the Michells Pass near Ceres and the Du Toit Kloof pass near Paarl. She says monitoring and[…]
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