1 September 2012
At about 13:50, I noticed big white clouds just above the roof of the girls house, not thinking much of it at first, but then at secound glance my breath was taken away by the amount of flames and cloud the fire had already caused.
Just on the other side of the Buffel Veld was a puff of dark smoke and flames higher than the trees. We went to the shop and were told to evacuate the people, I was one of the persons that went to the carvan park to evacuate the guests. The fire was getting closer and closer to the main area (the bistro, reception area), I didn't know what was going to happen to anyone or anything on the farm or what damage the fire had already done.
We then went back to the shop area and started evacuating the people to the caltex garage close to Sondela (just over the bridge), where a roll call was done and injured persons were helped.
We were at the Caltex garage from approximatly 2:30 till about 7 that evening, we were all waiting in suspense to hear what the damage was and we worried about our friends that were fighting fire.
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