Fire engulfed a 63-storey skyscraper in Dubai on Thursday night, but with the block evacuated and only minor injuries reported authorities went ahead with a New Year’s fireworks display at the world’s tallest building a few hundred meters away. Tongues of flame shot skywards from one side of the luxury[…]
“If you have a nice house, please don’t take. This is only for the people who lost their homes in the fire,” said a policewoman cruising down one of the lines of people waiting to receive something to eat after losing everything in the Boxing Day blaze at Hout Bay’s[…]
The fear of possible shack fires has become a “way of life” for those residing in the Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Hout Bay. The area was hit by a devastating fire over Christmas weekend which destroyed more than 500 shacks, leaving 1 dead and over 1000 homeless. The blaze[…]
Yet another fire has gripped the Mother City this weekend as six coaches caught alight at the Cape Town train station on Sunday evening. The City’s safety and security director Richard Bosman said the incident is currently being attended to by fire and rescue services. “The fire is on platform[…]
A pre-dawn fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern port city of Jazan on Thursday killed 25 people and injured 107, the Saudi civil defense agency said in a statement. The fire at Jazan General Hospital broke out on the first floor, in the intensive care unit and the[…]
Around 20 firefighters were busy containing a vegetation fire in Hermanus on Tuesday morning, an official said. Ground crews were tackling hotspots in the Hemel and Aarde Valley, said Overstrand chief fire officer Lester Smith. The fire started in Fernkloof on Sunday. “On Sunday afternoon, one house was in danger,[…]
More than 1 100 building kits will be given to people who lost their homes in a devastating fire in Masiphumelele, the City of Cape Town said on Saturday. “The building kit consists of, among others, a door, hinges and lockset, a window, nails and poles, and corrugated steel sheets,”[…]
The City of Cape Town is doing everything in its power to ensure that the debris left behind by a blaze which claimed the lives of two people and destroyed 800 shacks at an informal settlement near Fish Hoek at the weekend is cleared, Human Settlements Member of the Mayoral[…]
At least two people were found dead and thousands of people lost their homes in a devastating fire that raced through an informal settlement near Fish Hoek, Cape Town, early on Sunday morning. The blaze started in the impoverished Masiphumelele shortly after 01:00, destroying 800 shacks at last count, and[…]
Two women were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a block of flats in Boston Street, Bellville. About 120 people had to be evacuated from the 10-storey building, Cape Town fire and rescue spokesperson Theo Layne said. “The fire has been extinguished, and firefighters have inspected[…]
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