Above: A post-fire scene from Knysna, South Africa. Screen grab from the Times video below.

Wildfires in South Africa have killed five residents, at least one firefighter, and have forced thousands to evacuate.

One of the fires in the Van Stadens Gorge area in the Eastern Cape has reportedly reached some of the buildings at Woodridge College outside of Port Elizabeth, the school said in a Facebook post.

After an appeal for water tankers to fill fire trucks, people came from far & wide. Overwhelming unity. I believe in South Africa #NMBFires pic.twitter.com/UQrORzPasu

— Athol Trollip (@AtholT) June 10, 2017