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‘The flames will not set you ablaze!’

iving at the foot of a mountain can be beautiful, but it can also be terrifying. My husband (Tony) and I live in a housing estate that borders the nature reserve on one side, and a wine farm on the other. On Friday 10 June we received a message that a fire had broken out at the neighbouring wine farm. Our estate manager was not too concerned, as the fire was relatively far away from us and the fire department had deployed their

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