Fire guts Melfort Old People’s Home

Melfort- Melfort Old People ‘s home was gutted by a veld fire Wednesday morning causing massive destruction to property.

The home is located along the Harare – Mutare highway.

No casualties have been reported by the time of writing and the incident comes barely one week after two such infernos broke out in different provinces.

The first one destroyed wheat which was planted on a vast tract of land while the latest one claimed 10 lives in Esigodini.

Government has since offered State assisted funerals to the families of the deceased.

President Mnangagwa called for a new national strategy to minimize the rise in veld fires .

“A new national strategy is now needed to minimize this growing menace whose risk continue growing by the day until we receive our first rains for the summer season.
“Both the Ministry in charge of our Environment and our Civil Protection department have to urgently get together so a comprehensive response to veld fires is developed across all provinces,” he said.

Investigations on the Melfort fire are still underway.

According to the Environment Management Agency (EMA), veld fires are caused by human activities which include land clearing, hunting, among others.