💬 “Alerts came on our phone to evacuate the town we were in. Within 15 minutes, we were looking into the sky in fear. The smoke cloud was getting closer and closer, darker and darker – clearly the wind direction changed,” said Jo-Anne Combrinck
In total, the families walked four miles across sandy beach terrain, wearing sandals in 40°C heat.
At one point, where the rock face on the beach came out into the sea, people were walking in the water, which was around knee-height. Ms Combrinck fell and cut her foot in the water. “We were just told we had no room to stay in but we could use their restaurant. I actually didn’t care, we were one-and-a-half hours away from the nightmare., we were given toothbrushes and a wipe each. We were given two beds for our family of four. I didn’t care, was just happy the children could sleep.”
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