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Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts, which has been burning for […]
The Outeniqua fire remains active in Waboomskraal, on the slopes of the Outeniqua Mountain above Witfontein Plantation, as well as in Karatara
The timing of the recall, which was issued last month, is already the subject of a government probe
The fire is believed to have started while maintenance work was being carried out on an air cooler.
Kouga Municipality said the fire, which had burned down more than 100 houses in St Francis Bay, is now under control.
Captain Johannes Ramphora on Monday described the scene of a deadly fire that killed 12 people at the Struisbult Care Centre in Springs as "terrible".
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/ 31 December 2010
An overnight veld fire on the slopes of Signal Hill above Cape Town has been contained, the city’s Fire and Rescue Services said on Friday.
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/ 8 December 2010
A fire broke out at a prison in the Chilean capital early on Wednesday, killing 81 inmates and injuring many more.
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/ 28 October 2010
Investigators on Thursday sifted through burned-out remains of the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court’s third floor to determine what had caused a fire.
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/ 28 October 2010
A blaze that ripped through the third floor of the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday brought the wheels of justice to a halt.
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/ 27 October 2010
Firefighters were battling a fire at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday afternoon.
Four more people have died as a result of a fire at a Nigel retirement home, raising the death toll to 22, the Gauteng health department said.
Forensic experts on Tuesday combed through a burnt-down retirement home looking for clues as to what started a blaze that killed 18 people.
Eighteen elderly people were killed and several others injured when a fire broke out at an old age home in Nigel, paramedics said on Monday.
Thousands of people made homeless after a spectacular fire ripped through a slum in Manila queued for food on Monday.
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/ 7 December 2009
Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the 112 victims of a weekend nightclub blaze.
Firefighters were beating back wildfires on Monday that have swept through homes and huge swathes of forest near Athens, forcing thousands to flee.
City Power has provided back-up power to at least 70% of the homes and businesses affected by an underground fire in the Johannesburg CBD this week.
Firemen managed to stop an underground power-cable fire in downtown Johannesburg by mid-morning on Monday, emergency services said.
Ekurhuleni emergency services were fighting two factory fires in Kempton Park and Germiston on Friday morning, a spokesperson said.
The fire that ravaged the Helderberg earlier this year was caused by children smoking, not by arson, according to findings released on Thursday.
Investigations are underway to determine the cause of fire that left four dead and seven others injured at a boarding house in Cape Town on Friday.
One of the victims of the fire that raged on Table Mountain through Tuesday night has died, the Western Cape health department said on Wednesday.
The fire on Devil’s Peak above Cape Town was ”more or less contained”, it was reported on Wednesday afternoon.
The fire on Devil’s Peak above Cape Town was largely contained and ”not looking too bad”, said Table Mountain National Park fire chief Philip Prins.
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/ 26 February 2009
Fires that were threatening historic wine estates in Somerset West have been put out ”for now”, Cape Town fire management said on Thursday morning.
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/ 25 February 2009
Two fires were still raging on farms in Somerset West on Wednesday afternoon, threatening historic wine estates in the area.
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/ 9 February 2009
Fires that have claimed 166 lives have threatened to engulf a dozen more Australian communities, leaving a grim legacy of charred homes and bodies.