The year has ended in heartache and tragedy for the Western Cape's Masiphumelele community. Two men and a woman died in a fire at the informal settlement near Kommetjie in the early hours of Saturday.
Gift of the Givers personnel onsite at the scene of a fire in Du Noon. Another blaze took the lives of three residents in Masiphumelele.The year has ended in heartache and tragedy for the Western Cape's Masiphumelele community.
Crews from the Kommetjie fire station were the first to be dispatched to the fire in Sobukwe Road after being alerted at about 2am. Cape Town councillor Angus McKenzie, who lives two streets away, assisted in getting fire and emergency services to the scene, but it was too late. A firefighter extinguishes a blaze at the Paarl home of an 82-year-old wheel-chair bound woman. Sadly, she perished in the fire.According to Ali Sablay of Gift of the Givers, the organisation was on site there on Friday as a fire had destroyed a number of structures.