Firefighters in the Western Cape have their hands trying to put out several fires in the Overberg and Garden Route areas.<\/p>\n
In the Overberg region there are currently three raging fires in Stanford, Pearly Beach, and Greyton.<\/p>\n
The municipality said the Pearly Beach fire – which has entered its fifth day – has spread all the way to Stanford wineries.<\/p>\n
Garden Route district firefighters are also batting two wildfires in Mossel Bay and Tsitsikama.<\/p>\n
The N2 between Dana Bay and Langeberg Mall in Mossel Bay has since been reopened after it was closed on both directions due to smoke.<\/p>\n
Overberg District Municipality Fire Chief, Reinard Geldenhuys, said firefighters are also busy trying to put out other small fires in the region.<\/p>\n
“The Greyton fire was contained but with the strong westerly wind the fire jumped the road to Riviersonderend and it’s currently burning in the mountain. There is a fire just outside our area that’s also running, a small one in Villiersdorp.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Franschhoek fire remains out of control, and a fire at De Wet Cellar in Worcester is burning in the direction of De Doorns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters in the Western Cape have their hands trying to put out several fires in the Overberg and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-11590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}