While there has been a drop in the number of residential fires and related deaths in Cape Town in the past 12 months, attacks on firefighting crews dispatched to douse the flames continue.
The city released its residential fire statistics for 2024/25 on Saturday, revealing a reduction in both the number of formal residential fires and informal residential incidents over the past 12 months, compared to the previous two years.
The overall number of fires dropped 10. The number of fatalities dropped 25.