Die grootste deel van Bettysbaai se krag het kort n\u00e1 11:00 die afgelope Sondag afgegaan toe \u2019n substasie op Clarence-rylaan (oorkant die Caltex-vulstasie) ontplof het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 ontploffing het veroorsaak dat \u2019n brand ontstaan het en die hele woonbuurt was gou vol rook. Die Overstrand se verkeersdepartement, in samewerking met verskeie veiligheidsmaatskappye, het die R44 gesluit en verkeer na agterpaaie soos die Bass- en Anglers-pad herlei. Drie helikopters (een van Working on Fire en twee van Leading Edge) was gou op die toneel en het die brand in bedwang gebring. Plaaslike inwoners was bekommerd, want dit was skaars drie jaar n\u00e1 die groot brand wat Bettysbaai geruk het sowel as die feit dat die brand reg oorkant \u2019n vulstasie ontstaan het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens dr. Annelie Rabie, die burgemeester van die Overstrand-munisipaliteit, was dit spanwerk wat alles moontlik gemaak het. Die brandweer is deur plaaslike brandweerpersoneel in Bettysbaai ondersteun, wat die brand aan een front bestry het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van die groot helde van die dag was Rodney de Bruin, \u2019n petroljoggie by Caltex in Bettysbaai, wat een van die eerstes was wat die rook gesien het. \u201cEk en \u2019n veiligheidswag het die stasie se brandblussers gegryp en tot by die brand gehardloop en dit heeltemal geblus. Ons het teruggestap en was trots dat ons \u2019n brand geblus het.\u201d De Bruin, wat al twee jaar by die Caltex-vulstasie werk, se blydskap was egter van korte duur toe die substasie sowat 11:30 weer \u2019n blou vlam gemaak en toe heeltemal ontplof het, wat toe \u2019n groter brand laat ontstaan het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het die regte strategie gevolg om die brand al vroeg met water te probeer blus, maar deur di\u00e9 krisis staan twee dinge vir my uit \u2013 die eerste is dat ons \u2019n groot probleem met Eskom het, want inwoners in Bettysbaai sit soms vir dae sonder krag. Dis iets wat ek nou op \u2019n politieke vlak gaan takel. Tweedens moet ons (die Overstrand-munisipaliteit) asook grondeienaars beter pogings aanwend om erwe skoon te hou. Uitheemse plantegroei moet skoongemaak word. Mense moet nie laks word nie en onthou ons woon in \u2019n biosfeer-omgewing,\u201d s\u00ea Rabie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teen Sondagaand het Eskom se manne op die grond nog gewag vir \u2019n nuwe substasie wat uit Kaapstad onderweg was. Teen Maandagoggend het sekere van die buurte in Bettysbaai elektrisiteit gehad, maar plekke soos Silversands en Stony Point was nog sonder krag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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