{"id":295498,"date":"2019-01-28T07:38:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T05:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=295498"},"modified":"2019-01-28T07:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T05:38:33","slug":"firefighters-battle-to-contain-cape-town-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/295498\/firefighters-battle-to-contain-cape-town-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle to contain Cape Town blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Wildfires broke out on hillsides overlooking Cape Town\u2019s city center and Sea Point and Fresnaye suburbs on Sunday, threatening homes and leaving South Africa\u2019s top tourist attraction covered in a smoky pall.<\/p>\n<p>The fires, which raged on several fronts on the slopes of Signal Hill and Lion\u2019s Head, were fanned by strong southeasterly winds and razed a large tract of natural vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters were used to dump water on the flames before it became too dark to fly, leaving ground crews to battle the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire has not been contained yet,\u201d Theo Layne, a spokesman for the City of Cape Town\u2019s Fire and Rescue Department, said by phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo residential properties have been damaged and there haven\u2019t been any injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town last experienced serious wildfires two years ago that destroyed several buildings and a vast tract of vegetation, and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/288016\/cape-town-is-lowering-water-restrictions-and-tariffs-heres-what-youll-now-be-paying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cape Town is lowering water restrictions and tariffs \u2013 here\u2019s what you\u2019ll now be paying<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires broke out on hillsides overlooking Cape Town\u2019s city center and Sea Point and Fresnaye suburbs on Sunday, threatening homes and leaving South Africa\u2019s top tourist attraction covered in a smoky pall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":295522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-295498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295528,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295498\/revisions\/295528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}