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City Mayco member for safety on security, JP Smith, said Enviro Wildfire Services would spearhead the probe after the fire and rescue department battled three different fires at various locations throughout the night on Thursday.

Wildfire investigator explains mop-up operation, using thermal camera drones 20 April 2021 12:44 PM Share This: Enviro Wildfire Services Robbie Erasmus says handheld electronic devices are used to detect hotspots that must be extinguished. Lester Kiewit talks to Robert Erasmus, wildfire investigator at Enviro Wildfire Services, about the pine trees that abound on the slopes of the Table Mountain National Park. Even though the fire has officially been called contained, there is always the risk o...

Wildfire investigator explains mop-up operation, using thermal camera drones 20 April 2021 12:44 PM Share This: Enviro Wildfire Services Robbie Erasmus says handheld electronic devices are used to detect hotspots that must be extinguished. Lester Kiewit talks to Robert Erasmus, wildfire investigator at Enviro Wildfire Services, about the pine trees that abound on the slopes of the Table Mountain National Park. Even though the fire has officially been called contained, there is always the risk o...

Additional reporting by Victoria O’Regan Efforts to contain the out-of-control wildfire that erupted on Table Mountain on Sunday morning at around 8.45 continued throughout the night. The unforgiving inferno – suspected by the Table Mountain National Park to have been ignited by an unattended vagrant fire – burnt down a restaurant at Rhodes Memorial and damaged multiple buildings at the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus, including the library. Efforts continue to contain a vegetation f...

Speaking to Daily Maverick’s Our Burning Planet unit on Saturday, Rob Erasmus of Enviro Wildfire Services, the park’s independent fire investigator, said the Thursday fire had been started by a homeless person on private property near the park. “The Oudekraal fire investigation has been completed and the person responsible has been identified,” said Erasmus. “It was caused by an unattended vagrant fire,” he added. “The cause of the fire is regarded as accidental negligence. We ha...

Covered in sandy, nutrient-starved soils, scorched by fire, and pummelled by the prevailing gale-force southeaster in summer, the Cape Floral Kingdom has persisted as a land of extreme paradoxes for millenniums. Given the harsh conditions that assail life here, this world seems to have every reason not to be a botanical number cruncher’s wet dream: the untrained eye may hardly conceive that it gives refuge to nearly 20% of Africa’s flora on less than 0.5% of the continent’s surface. It se...