{"id":917991,"date":"2022-01-20T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/kammanassie-wildfire-in-klein-karoo-has-spread-due-to-windy-conditions-with-properties-now-in-danger\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:14:14","slug":"kammanassie-wildfire-in-klein-karoo-has-spread-due-to-windy-conditions-with-properties-now-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/kammanassie-wildfire-in-klein-karoo-has-spread-due-to-windy-conditions-with-properties-now-in-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kammanassie wildfire in Klein Karoo has spread due to windy conditions with properties now in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPE TOWN \u2013 The wildfire on the Kammanassie Mountains in the Western Cape has spread with property now in danger.<\/p>\n

This as warm weather conditions in excess of 30\u2103 is expected for areas around the province over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) on Thursday said the wildfire on the Kammanassie Mountain in the Little Karoo between the Swartberg and Outeniqua mountains, has become more active after Wednesday\u2019s night\u2019s north-easterly windy conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has spread more towards all sides of the initial affected area,\u201d the GRDM said.<\/p>\n

A GRDM skid unit and 17 Working on Fire (WoF) ground crew are fighting the wildfire in the southern section of the blaze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the western side of the incident, firefighters of GRDM are attending to the wildfire that\u2019s spreading to a farmer\u2019s property and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Cape Nature firefighters are attending to another scene near a farmer\u2019s property and WoF firefighters are currently stationed at the north-eastern scene close to two properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrews are expected to make inroads in the accessible areas,\u201d the GRDM said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No injuries or damage to infrastructure were recorded as yet.<\/p>\n

The blaze broke out on Monday spreading through the Kammanassie mountain ranges west of Uniondale.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, authorities said the fire was estimated at 2 500 hectares and burning in a 26-year-old veld, which was inaccessible due to mountainous terrain. The overnight weather was reported to have been favourable with low cloud cover and upwind conditions causing some parts of the fire lines to self extinguish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GRDM Emergency Call Centre can be contacted on: 044 805 507<\/p>\n

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CAPE TOWN \u2013 The wildfire on the Kammanassie Mountains in the Western Cape has spread with property now in danger. This as warm weather conditions in excess of 30\u2103 is expected for areas around the province over the weekend. The Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) on Thursday said the wildfire on the Kammanassie Mountain in […]<\/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-917991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917991","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=917991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}