About fifteen people were left displaced after a fire broke out over the weekend, at the Singabalapha Informal Settlement, situated on the Main Road, in Observatory.
PICTURE: COURTESY IOLThe City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue
Services said the fire was extinguished just before 7a.m on Saturday.
‘’Services were notified at 5:57am of the
incident and by 06:04 a crew from Salt River was on scene. The initial estimate
is that five informal structures were affected and 15 persons left displaced. Fortunately
no one was injured, and the fire was extinguished by 06:45,” said Jermain
Carelse, City of Cape Town Fire & Rescue Service spokesperson.
He added that the cause of the fire was unknown
at this stage.
Done by: Mitchum George
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