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Aerial view of the Breede River
A team of people from multiple agencies, including the City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services and Law Enforcement, are busy coordinating efforts to deliver food supplies and blankets to an isolated farming community in the Breede Valley area.
Floods washed away a low-lying bridge, cutting off the farming community between Worcester and Villiersdorp.
At least four people have died in the Breede Valley following storms and torrential rains over the past few days.
City of Cape Town Fire Services Spokesperson Jermaine Caresle says, “We are currently standing on the Scherpenheuwel Road that is leading to Alfalfa Farm. After the bridge has been washed away since Sunday, there are about 200 persons over there that have not had any sustenance. What we are doing now is we have established that we are taking the boat through to see how far the guys can go, establish contact with the farm owner, come back, and get an inflatable boat over there, and then they can feed them with the food that has been loaded on the truck from Breede Valley and take it to those families.”
