This is one of the two houses that were totally gutted during the Gordons Bay fire on Monday night.
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Daily Archives: 11 December 2008
Fire heading towards Rooiels
Besides the flare-up above Gordons Bay there is also a fire front moving rapibly along the Kogelbaai coastline towards Rooiels. I managed to get through onto the coast road shortly before it was closed again, and took these photos from various points along Kogelbaai.
Gordons Bay fire flares up again
The fire that devastated parts of Gordons Bay on Monday night and that was reported as under control yesterday, has flared up again. These photos I took about two hours ago at the water treatment plant show smoke rising over the mountain top and drifting down towards False Bay.
Got My Prize
In reference to my post Competitions and expectations of prize delivery, I’m happy to announce that I have now received my prize; a nice fat Kalahari.net voucher.
And to those responsible for arranging the competition; if you saw my previous post I hope you realised I was just venting my frustration, not having a dig at you.
Gordons Bay fire update
I returned to Gordons Bay on Tuesday to see what would be visible by the light of day. We drove in via the lower, beach road and saw that the mobile command centre and numerous fire vehicles, with resting firemen, were still set up in the parking lot alongside Spur.
We drove to Bikini Beach which was virtually empty, probably due to the high winds and the smoky smell still lingering in the air. I had the idea of driving up to the water treatment plant where a good view of the area is possible, but found that the R44 was still blockaded so we stopped of at the whale-watching point from where I took these photos of the burnt area towards Bikini Beach where the fire had jumped the road.
Looking up the mountain side we could see that there was still fire, well smoke anyway, up near the water treatment plant. We drove back along the upper road and could see that having a hose along one of the valleys coming down the mountain is a bad idea as these seemed to have acted as channels for the fire to come down off the mountain. I saw one of the gutted houses along one of these and others with damage, like charred wooden decks.
By Wednesday afternoon the fire fighting effort must have been all over as I saw the mobile command centre bus coming through Strand on it’s way back to the city.
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