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The 2024 Western Cape wildfires are a series of forest fires in the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.They led to the loss of 52,501 hectares of land, of which 15,587 hectares were on the CapeNature estate. 129 VIIRS fire alerts were reported between September 11, 2023, and September 16, 2024 (high confidence alerts), with 52 VIIRS fire alerts reported in 2024.
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire [2] or Cape Town fire [3] [4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa.
Helicopters continued to drop water on the fire burning in Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park on April 20.Local media reported that South African National Defence Force helicopters were ...
Cape Town high fire alert season traditionally ends at the end of April. [20] While fire on Table Mountain can be beneficial to local fynbos plants, the threat to human settlement is also considered when deciding whether to extinguish. [18]
On 6 January 2022, the City of Cape Town released a preliminary report based on observations from the fire services. [16] [17] This report confirmed that the National Assembly sprinkler valve system had not been serviced since 2017, and was closed at the time of the fire. It also found that fire doors were latched open, which aided the spread ...
Get weather and fire alerts via text: Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location. ... This town has known fire, been basked in the unnerving orange haze of smoke many times. This outbreak ...
On 18 April 2021, the mill was gutted in a fire that had started on Table Mountain and destroyed several buildings, including one of the libraries of the University of Cape Town. [5] [6] The fire also destroyed four thatched houses behind the mill. At the time of the fire, Mostert's Mill was South Africa's oldest working mill. [7]
The 2006 Table Mountain fire was a large fire in and around the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. It broke out at approximately 4 p.m. on 26 January 2006 above Tafelberg Road, and spread quickly due to dry conditions and strong winds of up to 60 knots (110 km/h; 69 mph).