Cape Town Fires: Please send us your photographs and find out how you can help!
It’s fair to say that today there’s been at least some relief around the Mother City with the cooler weather, especially given the fires that have been raging around our mountain over the last few days. As far as we can tell the fight is still ongoing and the true extent of the devastation caused by the wildfires that started in Muizenberg is yet to be revealed. Emergency rescue workers say several homes have been lost, wildlife and thousands of hectares of land destroyed. Countless firefighters and volunteers have been fighting for days in a bid to curb the roaring flames.
Thankfully generous donations from the public have been streaming in for exhausted emergency crews and those who have been affected by the fire. Orms will be donating a few pairs of binoculars, if you would like to contribute Volunteer Fire Services posted a How To Help page on their website, saying “The offers of support and assistance have been overwhelming, and we are indeed very grateful. At this stage we are well taken care of with regards to food and refreshments, as the public response has been to ‘cook up a storm’! Should you wish to assist us with other much needed operational costs, such as fuel, vehicles, uniforms, firefighting equipment, then please consider making a donation”.
One of our readers Greg Hillyard Photography sent us a few photos that he’s taken, some of them we’ve included in this post. We would love to see more and share a few on the blog. So if you’ve taken any images over the last few days please do feel free to share them with us by emailing michelle@orms.co.za. Please use “Cape Town Fire” in your subject line and use your name as the image title. We will update this post in a few days with some of the images.
Update 6 March 2015: Thank you to everyone who sent us some photos of the recent fire, we’ve added some to the gallery below!
Image Above by: Alexandre Pino
Image Above by: Carolina Ödman-Govender
Image Above by: Greg Hillyard
Image Above by: Deon Collison
Image Above by: Carolina Ödman-Govender
Image Above by: Deon Collison
Image Above by: Jon-Erik Munro
Image Above by: Greg Hillyard
Image Above by: Greg Hillyard
Image Above by: Greg Hillyard
Image Above by: Jon-Erik Munro
Image Above by: Fernando Badiali
Image Above by: Carolina Ödman-Govender
Image Above by: Fernando Badiali
Image Above by: Psuedoir V
Image Above by: Carolina Ödman-Govender
Image Above by: Greg Hillyard
Image Above by: Psuedoir V
Image Above by: Greg Hillyard
Image Above by: Marcelino Ada
Image Above by: Fernando Badiali
Image Above by: Tyron van der Berg
Image Above by: Carolina Ödman-Govender
Image Above by: Fernando Badiali
Image Above by: Marcelino Ada
Image Above by: Psuedoir V
Image Above by: Psuedoir V
Image Above by: Psuedoir V
Image Above by: Robby Pedrica
We even received a video from Calvin Munhuweyi, have a look below.
Wow! Excellent images. It’s not strictly true that thousands of hectares of land are destroyed – at least, not permanently. Of course is very sad about the homes and other structures that have burnt down, and animals lost, but for the fynbos fire is not a disaster, but actually good and necessary. Many fynbos plants rely on fire to germinate, produce flowers and resprout. There will be lots of interesting new growth and floral displays to see in the weeks and months to come, I’d love to see you guys do an gallery or two of images of post-fire fynbos rejuvenation come Spring.