Di\u00e9 63-jarige inwoner vertel hoe sy en die kinders wakker geword het toe hul huis deur vlamme verswelg word. Haar 17-jarige kleindogter, wat na bewering weens rookinaseming wakker geword het terwyl die brand gewoed het, het glo opgespring en in reddingsaksie oorgegaan. Sy het glo gehelp om die tweelingseuns (11) te ontruim en na veiligheid te bring. Haar hare het tydens die reddingspoging na bewering vlam- gevat en geskroei. Janse van Rensburg en \u2019n 22-jarige verstandelik gestremde meisie het ook die vlammehel ontsnap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het nie eens geweet die huis brand nie; ons het geslaap. Die volgende oomblik hoor ek die kind skree, \u2018Ouma, die huis brand!\u2019 en toe is dit reeds te laat,\u201d vertel sy deur die trane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie vrou aan wie ek blyplek gegee het, het glo \u2019n kers in haar kamer laat brand, wat omgeval het. Haar pogings om die vlamme met water te blus, het egter misluk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oorsaak nog nie amptelik<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Jermaine Carelse, \u2019n woordvoerder vir die Stad Kaapstad se brandweer-en-reddingsdienste, het by navraag ges\u00ea die oorsaak van die brand is steeds onbepaald. Hy het wel bevestig dat brandweerspanne omstreeks 05:40 gereageer het op \u2019n noodoproep van \u2019n houthuis wat by Kays-woonwapark brand. Lede van Strand Patrol-buurtwag en beamptes van AM Security het ook op die voorval gereageer en bystand gelewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carelse s\u00ea altesaam 24 brandbestryders van Strand-, Somerset-Wes-, Sir Lowry\u2019s Pass-, Macassar- en Belhar-brandweerstasie is met vier brandweerwaens en twee watertenkers na die toneel uitgestuur. \u201cTeen 08:00 was die brand, wat een groot informele struktuur en een wat lyk soos \u2019n woonwa of wendy-huis, vernietig en ses mense haweloos gelaat het, geblus,\u201d s\u00ea Carelse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel geen beserings aangemeld is nie, het die brand na bewering die lewe van verskeie troeteldiere ge\u00ebis. \u201cEk het byna al my diere verloor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op \u2019n vraag oor hoe sy oor die voorval voel, s\u00ea Janse van Rensburg, wat net verlede jaar haar man aan die dood afgestaan het: \u201cEk is kwaad. Ons huis is vernietig en my kinders se lewe was in gevaar. Waarheen moet ek gaan? Ek het niks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sedertdien is \u2019n beroep op die gemeenskap gedoen vir skenkings van klere en skoene en huishoudelike produkte om die gesin te help om hul lewe te herbou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Tracey Martin, woordvoerder vir Kays-woonwapark, het die gemeenskap getrou saamgespan en gehoor gegee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boonop is Janse van Rensburg en haar huisgesin kort n\u00e1 die brand \u2019n dak oor die kop gegee en bly hulle danksy die woonwapark se eienaars tydelik in \u2019n ander struktuur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin s\u00ea dit is tragies wat gebeur het en hulle is dankbaar dat die huisgesin die voorval ongedeerd oorleef het. Sy voeg by dat Kays-woonwapark in die toekoms as Kays-gemeenskap sal hervestig en as \u2019n organisasie sonder winsoogmerk bestuur sal word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin verduidelik geldinsamelings\u00adinisiatiewe is van stapel gestuur vir die toekomstige bouplan wat, indien dit deur die raad goedgekeur word, in fases uitgevoer sal word. Blyplekke sal glo vervang word met een-, twee- en drieslaapkamer-wonings wat uit Resin 8-boublokke (\u2019n vervangingsmateriaal gemaak van \u2019n kombinasie van afvalplastiekharse) gebou sal word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Kays-gemeenskap sal ook \u2019n vaardigheidsontwikkeling\u00adsentrum bied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019n Plaaslike gesin is in sak en as gelaat nadat nog \u2019n verwoestende brand by Kays-woonwapark uitgebreek 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