{"id":913832,"date":"2022-01-06T07:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/uct-confirms-fire-on-upper-campus-posed-no-threat-to-life-or-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T07:07:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:07:14","slug":"uct-confirms-fire-on-upper-campus-posed-no-threat-to-life-or-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/uct-confirms-fire-on-upper-campus-posed-no-threat-to-life-or-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"UCT confirms fire on Upper Campus posed no threat to life or infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/a63a0aad-bdaa-5bd6-a38f-e81e50ced4e6&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x18&#038;resize=2008x1130.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211; The University of Cape Town (UCT) confirmed a fire that broke out on its Upper Campus on Wednesday evening posed no threat to human life or its infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Thursday, UCT spokesperson Elijah Moholola said the fire broke out on a vacant field near the top dam and was put out shortly after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere was no danger to any human life, and the fire was very far from any buildings or infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire was reported around 23:30 (on January 5) by the patrolling UCT Campus Protection Services (CPS) officers, and the standard operating procedure was followed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There was no danger to any human life and the fire was very far from any buildings. We commend the @UCT_news CPS patrol officers together with the Fire services for acting swiftly, the fire was under control from when it was reported and fire services arrived on site. pic.twitter.com\/i1ytrEg6Z3<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mamokgethi Phakeng\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@FabAcademic) January 6, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe fire services department was on site within 15 minutes, and the fire was declared fully doused by 1:45am on Thursday,\u201dMoholola said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The university commended its CPS patrol officers and fire services for their swift response and said the fire was under control from the time it was reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the fire was completely doused, overnight measures were put in place in the unlikely event of the fire re-igniting,\u201d Moholola said.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is no indication of what the cause of the fire is at this stage, but an investigation would be conducted, and a formal report would be drafted and tabled through the relevant internal channels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town &#8211; The University of Cape Town (UCT) confirmed a fire that broke out on its Upper Campus on Wednesday evening posed no threat to human life or its infrastructure. In a statement released on Thursday, UCT spokesperson Elijah Moholola said the fire broke out on a vacant field near the top dam and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}