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The City of Cape Town is collecting CCTV and other footage of the Table Mountain fire, in the hopes of figuring out how it started.
In the meantime, one of the five firefighters injured while tackling the blaze, is still in hospital.
Damping down and fighting new flare-ups continue, with helicopters still flying overhead.
The City of Cape Town is collecting CCTV and other footage of the Table Mountain fire as part of its investigation into how it started, as damping down and fighting flare-ups continued on Tuesday.
Community Safety MMC JP Smith said this would form part of the timeline of how and when the fire started, and the trajectory of events that followed.
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The City of Cape Town s Disaster Risk Management teams says the runaway veldfire on Table Mountain is currently contained.
However, they are closely monitoring the situation.
City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Incident Commander Arlene Wehr said: We are monitoring it because there are possibilities of flare-ups. It does not mean the fire is done.
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The City assisted with evacuations on Monday morning in the Vredehoek area, with residents of the Disa Park tower blocks, Ministerial Estate, and Mountain View complexes evacuated. Precautionary evacuations also took place in Zonnebloem.
Disaster Risk management spokesperson Charlotte Powell said: There was a coordinated effort to evacuate areas, due to smoky conditions. An assessment was conducted at the Zonnebloem area and a decision was made to evacuate residents.
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