Cape fire season
Warnings of a riskier wildfire season in the Western Cape
Despite this, the Western Cape Environmental Affairs Department says firefighters are ready and prepared to respond.
The City of Cape Town’s fire services, Working on Fire and Table Mountain National Parks were deployed to Lower Kloof Road.
The report says more fire risk assessments must be done in communities that border wildlife and it has also found that more should be done to control fire-prone alien vegetation around communities.
Even though individual fire incidents decreased from about 17,000 two years ago to around 14,000 this past season, officials said the enormity of the blazes were on the rise.
The pupils have been evacuated and no injuries have been reported.
The fire which started at five o’clock on Thursday afternoon, spread through the community before residents could empty their homes.
The city’s Theo Layne says the cause of the fire is undetermined.
There’s a long way to go for the people who lost their homes and livelihoods in the Gordon's Bay Fire.
Much of the area was also without power after two substations were damaged in the fire.
In Kensington, six fire engines are on the scene of a large vegetation fire at the corner of Voortrekker Road & 18th Avenue.
The wildfire, which is yet to be contained, stretches across 4,000 hectares between the Overberg Missile Test Range and De Hoop Airstrip.
The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon. There is no immediate threat to property.
A house was destroyed & two other properties damaged as some residents feared for their families & properties amid the blaze.
More than 1000 hectares of land has been destroyed in the blaze, which broke out near the Du Toitskloof Pass on Thursday.
A blaze broke out on Thursday and fire crews battled flames overnight.
The Stilbaai Business Chamber has launched an emergency fund to assist farmers who lost crops & property in devastating fires.
Firefighters are monitoring hot spots in the Stilbaai area after a blaze ravaged hundreds of hectares of land.
Veld fires across the Peninsula, Paarl, Stilbaai & Tulbagh are but a few that have wreaked havoc in recent weeks.
The Environmental Affairs Department says extremely hot, dry & windy conditions are being experienced across the province.