A mountain of water bottles and energy drinks could be seen upon entering the facility, with scores of volunteers packing medical supplies, energy boosters, food and other essentials.
WOF: Claims of firefighter shortage in KZN not true Updated
Nomfundo Ngcobo and HeartFM
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Working on Fire has dismissed reports that KZN wouldn t have enough firefighters to contain a similar runaway fire experienced in Cape Town.
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It says some of the personnel who helped contain the blaze in Cape Town were from a KZN group that was deployed there in December.
This follows claims the province has a shortfall of over 500 firefighters - with some municipalities without fire stations.
WOF KZN general manager, Sifiso Khwela says there are enough crews on standby should a similar incident happen.
SANParks blamed by groups for ignoring mountain vagrant fires over the years
By Shakirah Thebus
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Cape Town - Mountain-user groups have pointed a finger at SA National Parks (SANParks) for allowing vagrants to start fires that eventually led to the latest Table Mountain blaze, despite numerous reports about vagrant fires over the years.
Table Mountain Watch (TMW), a collective of concerned residents, said SANParks had been repeatedly warned of the threat posed by these fires, coupled with the mismanagement of vegetation.
TMW head André Van Schalkwyk said: “As park users, we have alerted SANParks to locations, incidents, evidence of where indigent people camp in the park – on countless occasions and over many, many years. It makes no sense to conveniently blame vagrants when, as a state-owned enterprise, they’ve done very little to address the problem.”
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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.
Cape Town fire update: Mop-up operations underway, students receive local support
20 Apr 2021
April 20 2021 - Gift of the Givers donation drop-off centre at the Old Mutual in Pinelands. Following the devastating Table Mountain fire, around four thousand UCT students who had to be evacuated from their residences are now being housed by hospitality industry businesses & in hotels around the city with many other busineses donating essential goods & food to a central drop-off point at the Old Mutual Centre in Pinelands for distribution. (David Harrison/M&G)
For bystanders, it may seem as if Cape Town is getting back to normal as several roads that were closed since Sunday reopened and the dense layer of smoke covering the Mother City dissipated.