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Dedicated WOF aerial firefighting resources for local municipality
Msukaligwa local municipality adds a Working on Fire Huey helicopter, spotter aircraft and aviation support vehicle, to its firefighting toolbox this winter fire season. In 2012, Fire Chief of Msukaligwa Local Municipality, Jaco Johnstone, witnessed as a wildfire -...
MD Message June 2018
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...
MD Message May 2018
Upon my return to Working on Fire in May 2017, members of the Executive Committee and I engaged with participants and management. We observed at that time that we were not providing the kind of working environment for our participants as we had in the past, which put...
WOF honours firefighters for their brave and selfless service
On Friday, 04 May, Working on Fire (WOF) joins the global firefighting community in celebrating International Firefighters’ Day. On this International Firefighters’ Day, Working on Fire wishes to recognise the selfless acts of firefighters across the globe, in...
Working on Fire’s North West teams are ready for Winter Fire Season
From 9 April until 22 April, 17 Working on Fire (WOF) teams – consisting of 600 firefighters – attended WOFs Yellow Card Training Camps (YCTC) in the North West Province. On completion of these YCTCs, firefighters were issued with Yellow Cards, which qualified them to...
Firefighters sharpen skills at camp
Working on Fire Western Cape has been hard at work preparing its participants for the 2017/18 veld fire season. “With an overall 90% pass rate received at our annual Yellow Card Training, I am confident that we are ready for the coming fire season. Over the...