Bleak Easter as fires ravage 4 informal settlements in Cape Town

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The City of Cape Town's disaster management teams have been deployed to fire sites after firefighters spent Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday morning battling fires in four of Cape Town's informal settlements.

The City of Cape Town’s disaster management teams have been deployed to fire sites after firefighters spent Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday morning battling fires in four of Cape Town’s informal settlements.According to City’s Fire & Rescue spokesperson Jermaine Carelse, a fire that broke out in Umzumbe Street in Mfuleni resulted in the death of two people and left another two injured.

‘The first fire occured in Langa; the emergency call came in at 7:20pm and the last call was at 2am this morning for a fire in Mfuleni,’ said Carelse.

 

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