by WOF Editorial Team | 30 Oct, 2020 | Aviation News, MD Message |
On the morning of 11 September 2001, I was meticulously doing my pre-flight checks in the simulator cockpit of a Beechcraft King Air B200 under the watchful eye of my instructor, who was overseeing this check-out flight after a week of intensive recurrency training at...
by WOF Editorial Team | 16 Oct, 2020 | Focus Article, MD Message, Profiles, WoF service, WoFire News, Working on Fire |
WOF Managing Director, Trevor Abrahams has a vast array of knowledge and has worn many hats across his illustrious 43 year career. With extensive experience his expertise and passion lies with aviation, political economics and education. Having started as a psychology...
by WOF Editorial Team | 3 Dec, 2018 | MD Message |
Annual Azishe Games The fifth annual national Azishe Games ended on Sunday, 18 November. This year’s games were hosted at Hekpoort in Gauteng and coincided with our 15-Year Celebrations. The Azishe Games is an opportunity for firefighters to compete against colleagues...
by WOF Editorial Team | 31 Oct, 2018 | MD Message |
It was with great sadness that we learned of the loss of Nico Heyns, one of our most experienced firefighting pilots, during firefighting operations in the Southern Cape on 23 October 2018. We in Working on Fire and Kishugu joined Nico’s family, friends and colleagues...
by WOF Editorial Team | 30 Aug, 2018 | MD Message |
I would like to extend warm greetings to all our firefighters and staff across the provinces and especially to all the women in Working on Fire who celebrated Women’s Month in August. The national theme for Women’s Month this year was ‘100 Years of Albertina Sisulu,...
by WOF Editorial Team | 2 Jul, 2018 | MD Message |
This month, we commemorated the first anniversary of the Knysna fires of June 2017, which became the biggest single disaster that a local municipality in South Africa ever had to incur. We joined thousands of people throughout South Africa, and more in particular the...