IFP: Caution needed in Cape housing move

The Western Cape government's relocation of 854 families who lost their homes in a fire BM Section, Khayelitsha, needed to be handled with caution, the IFP has said.

• Fire deaths tragic - De Lille
• Fire ravaged Khayelitsha to be revamped
• Khayelitsha fire toll rises

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Children 'burnt to ashes'

Three children, including a nine-month old baby, have burnt to death in the Free State after their mother left them alone at home and went out at night.

• Metrorail train catches fire
• 11 injured in Joburg hotel fire
• Couple lose everything in fire

Fire at Joburg hotel

The Formula One hotel in Southgate, Johannesburg, is on fire and several people have been treated for burn wounds and smoke inhalation.

• Metrorail train catches fire
• Pretoria court fire investigated
• Hillbrow tower soccer ball catches fire

230 shacks burn down

Relief is pouring in for 513 people displaced when a fire ripped through the Mangologolo informal settlement near Denver, Johannesburg emergency services have said.

• Two children burn to death
• Children burn to death
• KZN pupils try to burn school

Family of five burn to death

Three children and their parents have died after their home burnt down in Meyerton, north of Vereeniging.

• Man stabs wife, sets fire to her
• Forensic team to probe fire
• Homeless man caught in veld fire

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Australia battles bush blazes

Hundreds of firefighters are battling dozens of bush blazes across Australia which have left one dead and forced some residents to evacuate their homes.

• Fire suspect faces life in jail

Crews fight on in US fires

Firefighters have battled through the night to strengthen their lines around a massive blaze near Los Angeles, and cautious residents returned to survey the damage.

• Fire: Cool weather offers hope
• LA fire doubles in size
• Fires still rage in California

LA fire threatens 10 000 homes

A wildfire raging along a long stretch of the heavily populated Los Angeles foothills is threatening about 10 000 homes.

• Drug smugglers tied to US fire
• California fire crews struggle

EU helps exhausted fire crews

Firefighters are battling around-the-clock to try and contain massive blazes north of Athens, as more assistance arrived to relieve Greece's exhausted fire crews.

• Athens residents beg for help
• 1000s flee Athens fire

12 die in school fire

Police say 12 pupils have died in a fire that started when a student at a central Tanzanian girls' school tried to study by candle light.

Killer inferno lasted 3 mins

The fire inside a wedding tent in Kuwait that killed 41 women and children consumed the structure in a blazing inferno lasting just three minutes, says the fire department.

• 41 die at wedding

California declares emergency

Fire crews have fanned out across a parched California where wind-whipped wildfires have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes.

• 2 000 flee California fire

Island fire under control

Firefighters on the Spanish holiday island of La Palma have mastered a fire that has forced thousands of people to flee their homes, regional authorities say.

Elderly couple burn to death

An elderly couple have burnt to death when their home caught fire in KwaZulu-Natal.

French blaze threatens homes

A wildfire sparked by practice shelling by the military is raging on the outskirts of Marseille, threatening hundreds of homes.

• Wildfire in Spain burns 5 100ha
• 4 firefighters die battling fire

Fire out at government office

A fire that broke out at the education department's Pretoria offices has been extinguished, Tshwane emergency services says.