Cape Town’s Burning!

The Mother City has had a rough week. Two huge fires, fanned by gale-force winds, have wrecked havoc to the slopes surrounding Cape Town’s city bowl.

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Friday the 13th What a sad week for the residents of the cape as yet another fire raged through our national parks. This time signal hill was hit with the back drop of the mother city behind it as firefighters battle the blaze into the night. #signalhillfire

A post shared by Kyle Mijlof (@mijlof) on Jan 13, 2017 at 1:08pm PST

Last night, a fire swept through one of my favourite walking / trail-running / MTB’ing spots, Deer Park. The folk who volunteer to fight the fires all night are real life heroes!

After very hard night, crew of #VWS volunteers stands down from the #DeerParkFire and head to their day jobs. #ThankYou. @KFMza @CapeTalk pic.twitter.com/OF8hSdVhvc

— VWS Wildfires (@vwsfires) January 17, 2017

Published by Robert Elliott