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Blaze on Cape Town’s Table Mountain brought under control By Paul Vecchiatto and Mike Cohen (Bloomberg) A wildfire that broke out on the slopes of Cape Town’s landmark Table Mountain on April 18 and caused extensive damage to a university campus and several historical buildings has been contained. Howling winds that hampered firefighting efforts on Monday abated on Tuesday and helicopters were able to resume dropping water on parts of the mountain where the fire continued to burn. Six firefighters were injured while trying to douse the flames and nine city residents received treatment for...

UCT campus salvaging books from burned library Reuters"> By Reuters - 20 April 2021 - 18:46 A library at the University of Cape Town believed to contain it's priceless African Studies collection was gutted. Image: SUPPLIED Staring helplessly as flames from a weekend wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread and razed the University of Cape Town's library, chief librarian Ujala Satgoor was back amid the smouldering ruins on Tuesday to try and salvage what was left. One of Cape Town's worst fires in recent memory was brought under control on Monday after burning fo...

UCT ‘will rebuild facilities’ after devastating fire, says VC Mamokgethi Phakeng University of Cape Town vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng says the institution 'can create new treasures out of our own scholarship' after the Jagger Library was destroyed by a fire. File photo. Image: Esa Alexander University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng on Monday expressed optimism the institution will recover from the destruction caused by the wildfire which destroyed buildings across Rondebosch and Rosebank.  This comes after a blaze which started on Sunday...

© RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images Students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa were evacuated on Sunday, after a wildfire spread to the school, burning the campus library. According to The Associated Press, a wildfire burning on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain extended to the University of Cape Town, burning part of the Jagger Library, which is home to archives and book collections. At least two floors of the library were caught in the flames. Wind caused the flames to spread across dry brush and extend to part of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant, private homes and his...

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 fire in the mountain above UCT. The City of Cape Town is engaging in active firefighting efforts alon...