While the Tableviewfire has since been brought under control, firefighters continue to battle the blaze on the Helderberg Mountain in Somerset West which started on Wednesday:
The fire had spread to “high inaccessible areas” and would be waterbombed.
According to spokesperson Jermaine Carelse: “The guys will obviously work tirelessly throughout the night to contain this fire. We are envisioning there will be wind later in the week, I think Friday, and hopefully, this would’ve been extinguished by Sunday seeing that there’s rain coming to assist us.”
Unusually high temperatures, dry weather and mixed vegetation are believed to be the contributing factors to the start of the fire, as per
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