City of Cape Town assessing damages caused by recent fires
Jaimie-faith Poonah
17 March 2015
The City ofCape Town is busy assessing the damages and
the cost of the fires that ripped through the South Peninsula
two weeks ago.
The fire which lasted six days destroyed more than five-thousand hectares of vegetation and over five-hundred people had to be evacuated from their homes.
City ofCape Town ’s Mayoral Committee Member for
Safety and Security JP Smith said they estimate that the damages would be about
six-million-Rand.
Smith said the number of fatalities as a result of fires has decreased from last year. This was the largest mountain fire we had in 15 years and it came at a time when the whole of the fire season has been extremely busy.
Smith said we had 7 500 vegetation fires and 1 600 structural fires between the 1st of November last year and the 12th of March this year over this fire season compared to last season. We can see that the growth has grown quite considerably.
The City of
The fire which lasted six days destroyed more than five-thousand hectares of vegetation and over five-hundred people had to be evacuated from their homes.
City of
Smith said the number of fatalities as a result of fires has decreased from last year. This was the largest mountain fire we had in 15 years and it came at a time when the whole of the fire season has been extremely busy.
Smith said we had 7 500 vegetation fires and 1 600 structural fires between the 1st of November last year and the 12th of March this year over this fire season compared to last season. We can see that the growth has grown quite considerably.
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