Fire fighters have spent the night battling a mountain fire in Gordon’s Bay outside Cape Town.
At least five houses have been burnt but no lives have been affected.
The extensive vegetation fire has been raging against the slopes of the Hottentots Holland Mountains between Grabouw and Gordon’s Bay.
Strong gale-force winds are fanning the blaze making it difficult for firefighters to control it.
Fire Chief Theo Layne says about 350 firefighters has been deployed to combat the blaze.
“Residential properties have been destroyed in the fire. One of the properties is the one that’s behind us and there was no injuries fortunately. Unfortunately it was just embers and the strong south easterly winds that caused the embers to blow into the house itself,” Layne says.
