Cape Town fire services caught up in veld fire
By Odette Ismail
21 April 2007
The fire brigade has reported that at eleven-o-clock this morning they had been called out to the Phillipi area as grass had been set a light in a veld.
Fire services according to a spokesperson had to send out more people bringing to a total number of 20 people on the scene, to put out the fire.
Two fire trucks and 33water tenders were used during the process. It is confirmed that no-one has been harmed or injured and no property had been damaged.
Fire control staff says they speculate that it might have been a person drooping a lit cigarette but this is not confirmed.
21 April 2007
The fire brigade has reported that at eleven-o-clock this morning they had been called out to the Phillipi area as grass had been set a light in a veld.
Fire services according to a spokesperson had to send out more people bringing to a total number of 20 people on the scene, to put out the fire.
Two fire trucks and 33water tenders were used during the process. It is confirmed that no-one has been harmed or injured and no property had been damaged.
Fire control staff says they speculate that it might have been a person drooping a lit cigarette but this is not confirmed.
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