NATIONAL NEWS - Four houses are burning in Gordon's Bay after a vegetation fire spread from the slopes of Sir Lowry's Pass.
There are also reports that the Gordons Bay animal welfare clinic has been evacuated as a result of the blaze.
Fire and Rescues' Theo Layne said: “There’s still an extensive area of Mountain Slopes that is burning, it has gone all the way to the R44 now and so far we have had four residential dwellings that have been damaged or destroyed.”
A witness has described seeing several houses burning in the area.
Marius Knoesen works in Gordons Bay and explains what he saw.
“At the moment I’m on a construction site across the road from the old properties on Gordons Bay on the mountain slopes. And by the count of a finger, five properties’ have burnt or are currently burning."
