A stunning video made for the people of Cape Town about the worst fire in over 15 years.
Cape Town on Fire – A Community in Crisis from Ginkgo Agency on Vimeo.
Even Kevin Spacey watched it!
Inspiring film from @GinkgoAgency. CT community united in response to fires. My thoughts to a city I love. #CapeFire https://t.co/pOB2h3CVl2
— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) March 6, 2015
CapeTownEtc It gave us such goosebumps. What a great video!
What a wonderful accolade to all involved in fighting the fires, the volunteers too! Cape Town, once again you stood shoulder to shoulder! That’s why it is known as THE MOTHER CITY!!!
How amazing is this community ? Wow and the men and women that stood by to see it all to the end – what great heroes they all are
Dies Den Haan daarom konden we de Chapmans peak niet rijden U0001f613
A true awesome video.. we need to see more of this sort of help when there is a fire in the townships..
…together we are better…that is why I love Cape Town♥
Dear Laetitia
Our Grandsons Themed Birthday Party, and his passion for
Fire fighting used the opportunity to Salute all our firefighters and thank
them for all they are doing to save our city…
Thank you for all your help in this regard, please pass on
to as many Fire Fighting personel as you can .
Thank you
Good
day Russel & Debbie
This
is so cute!! Thank you so much for the kind gesture, I will circulate the
photo to each and every fire fighter on our internal e-mail group!!
Kindest
regards
Laetitia Paulsen
Admin Officer 1
City of Cape Town
Fire & Rescue Service
Tel: 021 590 1702
Fax2e-mail: 086 201 2150
e-mail:
CITYweb : http://cityweb.capetown.gov.za
Yes it whas the community have stand together the men and women are heroers workt long ouers
Vagan Kahni – 🙁 FireFighters cannot get into the townships coz the residents build the homes *so* dangerously and insanely close together, and nor do they build them in rows so that roadways are formed 🙁
Ja zonde van die mooie weg en mooie natuur
I was crying from the opening scene! Everyone should watch this.
Beautiful video.a fitting tribute to amazing people. Well done to all involved – you are inspirational!
This is a genuine, heartfelt tribute to the people of South Africa.
Wonderful. So inspiring ☺️
:'(:'(:'(
A moving tribute to the brave firefighters out there. What a city!
Beautiful
What a good video. It shows the spirit of our people!
Our hearts go out to everyone. Just shows what can be achieved when people come together.
Storm T Manson
Mr Davies and Bees Marais Heroes RIP. you’ve done it CapeTown. We CAN stand together
Amazing video ! Amazing people! Amazing Cape Town. Thank you to all those wonderful dedicated souls, who gave what they could U0001f64f
Proudly South African
Awesome video. Thank you to all our heroes.
Well done to all of you that helped
Amazing teams who have risen to do their very best for us. Well done all you dedicated people out there you are our heroes … Just so painful to see the devastation and heartache this ferocious element of nature has caused but just like the Phoenix we to shall rise and the fauna and flora will survive !
Norma the fauna and flora or nature very often needs natural disasters to renew itself. An example is the fynbos who’s renewal is actually overdue by 15 years apparently. And as painful as it was, it’s just part of nature. What isn’t part of nature is modern humans living in mountainous areas and invading the lebensraum / living space or habitat of fauna and flora. This is not the first time table mountain had fires and it will not be the last time either. Fires on the mountain is only a threat to humans if we live on the mountain or too close to it. So in many ways this crisis and drama is fabricated and damages caused by the fire self inflicted. The only real victims being the pilot and fire fighters who died fighting the blaze. To crown it all,it is mainly the poor working class volunteers and fire fighters who try to safe the very expensive homes and maybe even holiday homes of the well off, while most of them don’t even have a home. All of this at a cost of millions to the rest of us tax payers. Very little mention is also made of the animal life destroyed i.e. the baboons ,who’s habitat we have almost completely taken over!! I’m sorry, as much as I would like to symphatise, I just can’t buy into this media frenzy and great big hype!!!
Rip Bees.
Such community spirit ! Well done Capers!
So proud of all the wonderful volunteers & Firefighters. True heroes.
Amazing! I am so proud to be a South Africa!!!
A real shame to see the devastated landscape that I got to enjoy so well from a bicycle. But awesome community experience for Capetonians!
Fortunately the bush will grow back.
Thanks for sharing mate.
Can’t thank these people enough. ☺☺
Was ist los bei Euch, hast Du gekokelt?
Wrong. This was not Cape Town’s worsr fire in 15 years. Well, maybe in the well-heeled parts of town. And while the public grief, concern, support and outrage towards this bush fire are welcome, it would be nice if this same concern and support would be felt when shack fires ravage the lesser spoken about parts of the city. “Between 1
December 2012 and 8 January 2013, almost 5,200 people were made homeless
by shack fires in Cape Town. 4,000 were left homeless in just one blaze
on 1 January 2013, when a fire at BM Section in Khayelitsha burned down
1,000 shacks.” http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-03-10-analysis-are-some-cape-town-fires-hotter-than-others/#.VQAUIYWIJYQ
I agree with menunited84… also the fires in 99-00 affected the entire peninsula from cape point to table mountain, & the overberg…
but the shack fires were much worse!
This video brought me to tears again and gave me goosebumps down to my toes. When I think of the devastation this horrific fire has done to my hometown. I take my hat to the brave men and women who fought the fires so diligently. God bless you all and thank you.