{"id":153559,"date":"2017-06-08T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/153559\/urgent-drop-off-donations-knysna-fire-relief-efforts-news-today\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T10:52:07","slug":"urgent-drop-off-donations-knysna-fire-relief-efforts-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/08\/urgent-drop-off-donations-knysna-fire-relief-efforts-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT: Drop off donations for #Knysna fire relief efforts at the NEWS TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community members in <em>Edenvale and Bedfordview<\/em> are rallying behind those left homeless as a result of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/lnn\/278669\/knysna-fires-are-out-of-control\">Knysna fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donations of bottled water, energy drinks, food, blankets and clothing can be dropped off at the <a href=\"https:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/\">NEWS<\/a>&#8216; office in Greenstone Crescent Shopping Centre <strong>TODAY<\/strong>.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Residents can also donate dog and cat food.<\/p>\n<p>Nic Bruchhausen, an Edenvale resident, will drive to <a href=\"https:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/lnn\/278669\/knysna-fires-are-out-of-control\">Knysna<\/a> either later this afternoon or tomorrow morning to assist with firefighting efforts in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He will be taking all donations delivered to the NEWS&#8217; offices.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/lnn\/278791\/watch-plettenberg-bay-fire-forces-residents-to-evacuate-their-homes\">Also read:\u00a0WATCH: Plettenberg Bay fire forces residents to evacuate their homes<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Donations for residents <a href=\"https:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/lnn\/278791\/watch-plettenberg-bay-fire-forces-residents-to-evacuate-their-homes\">evacuated from their homes<\/a> and firefighters working to control the blaze will be delivered to various evacuation points identified,&#8221; Bruchhausen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters working around the clock to control the blaze will also benefit from the donations,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p>The NEWS&#8217; offices are situated in Greenstone Crescent Shopping Centre (The Checkers centre opposite Greenstone Shopping Centre). Shop 18A, next to Body Flo Gym. The offices will be open until <strong>6.30pm\/7pm<\/strong>\u00a0for donation drop-offs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313291\" src=\"https:\/\/bedfordviewedenvalenews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-07-at-3.36.58-PM-437x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Knysna is experiencing gale force winds and fires raging in many areas, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knysnaplettherald.com\/news\/News\/General\/190289\/Knysna-fires-are-out-of-control\"><em>Knysna-Plett Herald<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Knysna fire chief, Clinton Manuel, has confirmed the worst: the fires in Knysna are \u201cout of control\u201d and \u201cthere is a slim chance of stopping them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Knysna residents from every part of town are taking shelter from the storm near the water and at the Knysna Yacht Club.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RZ7Jo8e5iho' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Manuel said that the fire was spreading \u201crapidly due to a fast wind and that people are being evacuated to safe areas within town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Areas affected and evacuated, as confirmed by Manuel, are Brenton, Belvidere, Welbedaght, Eastford, Green Pastures and Knysna Heights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278686\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-07-at-22.56.24-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278685\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-07-at-22.56.14-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278683\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-07-at-22.55.41-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='2b47c782dbe93ae04f307dcd4b8844a2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations will be transported to Knysna later today or tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":153572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Charmaine Slater","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[2051,2166,7416,1051,1881,14817,5413,14500,1003,5414,988,1128,1083,1648,14818,14819,14820,14821],"class_list":["post-153559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bedfordview-and-edenvale-news","tag-bedfordview-saps","tag-charmaine-slater","tag-donations","tag-edenvale","tag-edenvale-high-school","tag-edenvale-news","tag-edenvale-saps","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-emm","tag-empd","tag-fire","tag-food","tag-gauteng","tag-greenstone","tag-knysna-fires","tag-out-of-control","tag-relief-efforts"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bedfordview and edenvale news","Bedfordview SAPS","Charmaine Slater","donations","edenvale","Edenvale High School","Edenvale News","Edenvale SAPS","Ekurhuleni","emm","empd","fire","food","Gauteng","Greenstone","Knysna Fires","Out of Control","Relief Efforts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}