Sounding the alarm on shack fire losses - The Mail & Guardian

Sounding the alarm on shack fire losses
25 Jan 2021
A tech solution to fires in informal settlements comes with insurance that pays out the victims of these blazes
More than 1 100 homes were destroyed in the fire that raged through Masiphumelele informal settlement near Fish Hoek in Cape Town last month. The devastating blaze displaced 5 000 people. The fire was only one of the 177 to hit informal settlements in the city last year.
But the Cape Town blazes are only an indication of a much larger problem. According to the most recent countrywide statistics from the Fire Protection Association of Southern Africa (FPASA), there were 5 283 shack fires during the 2016-17 municipal reporting year. Households lost almost R180-million as a result of these fires.

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