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Three shacks were razed in Nyanga, leaving three families homeless. Photo: Melinda Stuurman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A special task team will be set up to curb fires this festive season following a series of shack fires at the weekend which left one man dead and 150 people displaced, the city\u2019s Disaster Risk Management Centre has said.<\/p>\n
Centre spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the team would intensify efforts to raise awareness in communities most at risk.<\/p>\n
Food parcels, blankets and building starter kits were distributed to the victims yesterday after 13 fires destroyed homes across the city.<\/p>\n
Solomons-Johannes said the authorities were still to investigate the causes of the fires.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, 19 shacks and six backyard dwellings were gutted by five separate fires in Gugulethu, the Freedom Farm informal settlement in Belhar, Netreg, Kalkfontein and Nyanga.<\/p>\n
Solomons-Johannes said 97 people had been displaced by those fires.<\/p>\n
On Friday three shacks were razed in Gugulethu leaving three people homeless.<\/p>\n
Two homes were also gutted by a fire in Khayelitsha\u2019s BM section, leaving 16 people homeless, while another fire destroyed a shack in the Sweet Home informal settlement.<\/p>\n
During the early hours of Saturday, five shacks burnt down in the Witsand informal settlement in Atlantis, which left six people without homes. One of the victims, 67-year-old Harold Fransman, died after sustaining serious burn wounds, said Solomons-Johannes.<\/p>\n
During two other incidents, 16 people were left homeless when a fire destroyed four shacks in Church Circle in Vrygond, Muizenberg, and a backyard dwelling at 65 Junker Road in The Hague, Delft, was gutted.<\/p>\n
Another 10 people were displaced by fires which burnt down three shacks in the Barcelona informal settlement in Gugulethu as well as a shack in Pumlani Village, Lotus River.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city\u2019s Disaster Risk Management Centre encourages residents to be fire-safe when working with open flames. When going to bed, residents should isolate electrical devices and extinguish gas burners, candles, lamps and paraffin stoves to prevent fires,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, another 16 people were left homeless in Witsand after a large tree was uprooted by gale-force winds, damaging their homes.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred on Saturday following a warning issued by the SA Weather Service of strong south-easterly winds on the Peninsula.<\/p>\n
Solomons-Johannes said that on Saturday evening the tree had fallen on to four shacks, damaging them.<\/p>\n
He said 16 people had been displaced but no one had been injured. A response team had helped to remove the tree.<\/p>\n
Solomons-Johannes said the families had been given building starter kits, food, clothing and blankets.<\/p>\n
janis.kinnear@inl.co.za – Cape Argus<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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