Cape Town - A 23-year-old volunteer firefighter has described the devastation from the destructive fires in Cape Town as being like JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
“Just ash. Ash everywhere. It’s like Mordor,” Michael Boyd, who celebrated his birthday battling the raging fires engulfing the South Peninsula, told News24.
The fires broke out in Muizenberg at the weekend and were contained, but flared up again. Firefighters were battling the blazes for a fourth consecutive day on Wednesday.