About 90% of Cape Town wildfire now contained

A South African military helicopter drops water on the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town (Jerome Delay/AP)

Fire crews have worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain as the South African city came to terms with the damage caused by what officials have described as one of the area’s worst blazes in years.

About 90% of the fire had been contained, the Table Mountain National Park authority said, but only after firefighters worked through the night.