Saturday, April 21, 2007

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.

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