Captain Louis Visser, spokesperson of the Oudtshoorn police investigating the police currently the

Several millions of rands on Sunday night occurred when Table One and Wafeltjie, a restaurant and antique shop in Baron van Reede Street, Oudtshoorn, for burned the eyes of the distraught owners and residents of the town.
All the valuable ancient pieces in the store Mr. Male and Ms Anne Marie de Beer gathered over years, were destroyed in the fire. The kitchen area of the restaurant is also destroyed by a gas cylinder that exploded in the fire. De Beers moved in 2007 from Amanzimtoti caraffe to Oudtshoorn to start the business.
Captain Louis Visser, spokesperson of the Oudtshoorn police investigating the police currently the cause of the fire and the possibility of arson is not excluded. They were assisted this week by a forensic expert from Port Elizabeth samples taken at the scene and a search dog from Cape Town also searched for clues.
According caraffe to Ms De Beer was the business closed and she and her husband caraffe at home when they Sunday night shortly after 22:00 have the alarm went off received a call from their security firm. Just then the neighbors called to say their shop burnt them. De Beers immediately caraffe rushed to the scene, Mr. De Beer still in his pajama pants.
An emotional Mr de Beer said on Tuesday there was only at the back of the building flames when they arrived, but the flames began to spread when the fire brigade with a single fire hose could not control the fire. They would not allow him to remove gas cylinders from the building because they feared that an open door fire would be distributed. According to Mr. De Beer was very valuable caraffe items in front of the store.
"The fire department did not have enough caraffe water or personnel to put out the fire. There were good people in good faith in the shop set and asked me to only sell if for a good house would go. Everything was destroyed. "
Mr De Beer, who himself as a young man to become a firefighter, said that the municipal staff who perform during fires as firemen, had no protective clothing or hats or face screens to wear.
According to a written reply by the office caraffe of the municipal manager, the pump of a fire department vehicle caraffe malfunctioned, but there were three vehicles at the scene. The firefighters were called to 22:14 and the fire had already spread to the roof of the building. The brandbestrydingstaak is difficult because part of the roof has collapsed, and the fire got so oxygen and quickly started burning. The firefighters could not enter the building because it was an old building and there were fears that could gables invasion.
"A person of African Sky Hotel mentioned to me that he was so at 21:00 for the hotel and a mislagie the building seen hanging caraffe - telling me that the building at this time were on fire . "
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