His laptop, his dog, his cat and one set of clothing is all that Makhanda resident Graham Reed managed to take from the place he’s called home for the best part of a decade. Speaking from his temporary refuge with friends on Wednesday, he…
In the absence of answers from Ndlambe Municipality, private company Mphele Engineers has come forward to explain its use of municipal fire hydrants – it says it was to fight fires at the dump. A Mphele Engineers bakkie with a small tank…
Article by TIMESLIVE Cape Town’s depleted fleet of trains went from 33 to 32 on Saturday when six carriages and a motorcoach went up in flames. The train caught fire between Kentemade and Century City stations, said City of Cape Town fire…
Australia has a dry season every year that usually results in forest fires but the current bush blaze that started at the end of 2019 has escalated to a national crisis. The fire has spread across all six of Australia’s states‚ killing 25…
Drone footage from Reuters captures smoke and fires gaining strength in Brazil’s Amazon on August 28 2019, leaving behind a trail of desolation. A record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest has intensified an unfolding environmental…
Firefighting operations were continuing in areas around Hermanus and Franskraal at the edge of the Gansbaai area‚ but no immediate risk to residential areas was foreseen‚ the Greater Overberg Fire Protection Association said. In an update…
Fires along the Garden Route and in the Tsitsikamma area are mostly under control‚ with the cooler weather and lower wind speeds bringing much-needed relief. This comes after a chaotic weekend which led to six small towns along the Garden…
Hundreds of people have been evacuated along the Garden Route as one of the country’s biggest wildfires rages on‚ leaving a scar four times the size of the blaze that tore across Knysna in 2017. The farm Klein Bavaria near Wittedrift.…
Eight people have died in raging fires along the Garden Route which began on October 25 2018. Homes and buildings have been destroyed.
Slight overnight rains did little to stop a raging wildfire near George in the Southern Cape‚ which has claimed eight lives. Police spokesperson Malcolm Pojie said early on Tuesday that two women had perished in the blaze‚ along with six…
