Twenty students evacuated from a CPUT campus due to a fire

Loyiso Langeni
12 May 2014

Twenty students from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Gardens campus had to be evacuated to safety on Sunday evening after a fire broke out on the first floor of the campus. 

City of Cape Town’s disaster risk management Spokesperson Wilfred Solomons Johannes said the cause of the fire is being investigated by police. 

Johannes added that one female was treated on scene for smoke inhalation and she was an asthmatic patient and she was then transferred to Somerset Hospital for further medical treatment

"The building has been declared unsafe by the City of Cape Town and the management of CPUT has been ordered to affect immediate emergency repairs to the facility. The students have subsequently been accommodated at other residential units or hostels of CPUT.” Johannes said.