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New Book Puts 2015 Muizenberg Fire in Context
Graphic rich and educative, The Cape Aflame – Cape Town’s Dance with Fire is the book of choice for Christmas, the 2015/16 Fire Season and Cape-based public-benefit organisations. During the furnace heat of early March, the Muizenberg Fire ripped our iconic Cape Peninsula in two, uniting Capetonians as never before. […]
Father Christmas in China
Having departed Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City for the Chinese mainland, the 58,000-tonne Evergreen Marine Group container ship Ever Refine has stopped in Xiamen en route to Hong Kong where it will pick up your copy (or copies – remember, Christmas is just around the corner) of The Cape Aflame – Cape […]
As We Saw It …
We pretty much saw it as catastrophe turning to cataclysm and apocalypse and then to destruction and devastation. Nevertheless, we saw and recorded it being contained and suppressed by the City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services (CTF&RS) and the Bambi Bucket-bearing pilots of Working on Fire’s Hueys. « […]
Rebelo Slams Blanket Fire Suppression
“… VWS is Fynbos’s mortal enemy.” Dr Tony Rebelo – SANBI Restoration Ecologist
Perspectives
Wildlfire approaches a CPFPA firebreak on the Wildland Urban Interface during the March 2015 Muizenberg Fire. Photograph: Danie Coetzee “Freed of the peaks, ravines and gullies of the southeast and bypassing the southeastern suburbs of Tokai and Zwaanswyk, the firestorm ripped through the western side of the Silvermine section, devouring […]
Aliens Ate My Suburb
https://youtu.be/Ri1wGzgqOlMIt’s not as though we’re blogging ourselves to death here at The Cape Aflame Project HQ, but we do have other things to attend to. Your munificent goodwill translated to orders, for example. Nevertheless, my earlier entry posing the question: Did the 2015 Muizenberg Fire Cause Any Damage to Property? […]
The Way We Do Things Around Here
https://youtu.be/h2XdyILKld4Friends are blunt. Sometimes the most simple questions are the most difficult to answer. A Facebook friend posed a straightforward question: “Is this book available in Canada?” It’s not the done thing to refer friends to your FAQ. it’s about as friendly as giving a long-term prisoner a dictionary as […]
The Vineyard Rhino Relief Brawl*
“Les pitched with all the pride of a new father, cradling his newborn baby in his arms.” Photograph: Mike McSweeney On Friday evening, SANParks Honorary Rangers (SHR) shaved (well, the men anyway), showered and swapped their muddy boots and khaki attire for garments of a more appropriate nature and demonstrated […]
Premier Zille, and Basil’s Naked Romp
All media reports of a middle-aged man with prematurely grey hair, waving a flag emblazoned with a Cape Aflame logo and squealing with delight while running naked through the streets of Cape Town are to be ignored. Cape Aflame Image Controller and Website Developer Basil Parker was wearing a T-Shirt […]
Ryan Heydenrych: Doing Still More
“I still wish we could have done more.” What more could wildland firefighters Ryan Heydenrych and Mike Boyd have done? What were they doing, at around 03:00, in a suburb in which houses were ablaze, gardens were burning, and hedgerows along the street were spontaneously bursting into flame? What could […]
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