Cape Town rescue workers kept busy with fires and road accidents [SOUND]

# The City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service is switching focus from summer to winter. A review of winter statistics for the past three seasons show a decline in the number of structural fires from two-thousand-129 in 2022 to one-thousand-748 in 2024. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says there was an increase in responses to motor vehicle accidents from one-thousand-883 in 2022 to two-thousand-147 in 2024: