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The Cape Winelands District Municipality has not issued an evacuation order for staff and inmates at Brandvlei Prison amid a raging fire close to the facility.
The municipality said the facility, inmates and staff were safe as fire crews diverted the fire from the scene using the "fighting the fire with fire" technique, creating fire breaks between the facility's ground and the blaze.
"Fire teams burn a section of ground to create a fire break so that the fire can be directed into a different section."
