Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service teams deal with an average number of 8600 vegetation fires every year, most of which occur in the hot and windy summer months.
But, stressing the importance of residential fire safety is the high number of 1665 residential fires reported to the City’s Fire and Rescue Service Command and Control Centre in the five years between 2005 to 2010, of which 870 were at formal households, 688 informal, 97 apartments and 10 hotels and boarding houses.

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