Seventy-five residents of Masiphumelele were left homeless at the weekend after a fire swept through the Kommetjie informal settlement destroying their shacks.
Police are investigating the cause of the fire, which broke out on Saturday.
Also at the weekend, five Sea Point tenants were injured in a blaze in their flat.
In a third incident, police were investigating whether a fire in a building along Voortrekker Road in Parow was started intentionally on Sunday.
Firefighters had rushed to the scene and extinguished the blaze before it spread from a room.
On Sunday, Theo Layne, a station officer at the Cape Town Fire Command and Control Centre, said firefighters had received a report about the Voortrekker Road building which was on fire.
He said arson was suspected and it appeared the fire had been intentionally started in a room which was destroyed by the flames. "The police also came to the scene to start investigating," he said.
An officer at the Parow police station confirmed arson was suspected, but did not have further details.
Layne was not sure for what purpose the room, in a building occupied by a number of businesses, had been used.
No one was injured.
Shortly before midnight though, five Sea Point residents suffered burn wounds when a blaze started in a flat.
Layne said firefighters had rushed out to Shoreham Building in Beach Road where a first-floor flat was burning in the eight-storey building.
Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames before they spread to other flats.
Layne said five people had been injured, one suffering second degree burns, and were taken to hospital.
He said police had also arranged for them to receive trauma counselling.
While other tenants had managed to evacuate the building, Layne said four people had been stuck on the fourth floor while the fire had been raging.
But firefighters managed to get them out uninjured.
Layne said the cause of the fire in the block of flats was being investigated. - Cape Times
Police are investigating the cause of the fire, which broke out on Saturday.
Also at the weekend, five Sea Point tenants were injured in a blaze in their flat.
In a third incident, police were investigating whether a fire in a building along Voortrekker Road in Parow was started intentionally on Sunday.
Firefighters had rushed to the scene and extinguished the blaze before it spread from a room.
On Sunday, Theo Layne, a station officer at the Cape Town Fire Command and Control Centre, said firefighters had received a report about the Voortrekker Road building which was on fire.
He said arson was suspected and it appeared the fire had been intentionally started in a room which was destroyed by the flames. "The police also came to the scene to start investigating," he said.
An officer at the Parow police station confirmed arson was suspected, but did not have further details.
Layne was not sure for what purpose the room, in a building occupied by a number of businesses, had been used.
No one was injured.
Shortly before midnight though, five Sea Point residents suffered burn wounds when a blaze started in a flat.
Layne said firefighters had rushed out to Shoreham Building in Beach Road where a first-floor flat was burning in the eight-storey building.
Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames before they spread to other flats.
Layne said five people had been injured, one suffering second degree burns, and were taken to hospital.
He said police had also arranged for them to receive trauma counselling.
While other tenants had managed to evacuate the building, Layne said four people had been stuck on the fourth floor while the fire had been raging.
But firefighters managed to get them out uninjured.
Layne said the cause of the fire in the block of flats was being investigated. - Cape Times
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