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Toughest firefighter at Yellow Card Training Camp in Mpumalanga
Joshua Morole, a 29-year-old firefighter from the Wilgeboom Team in Mpumalanga, was declared the toughest firefighter after winning a push-up competition at the Yellow Card Training Camp (YCTC) held to prepare firefighters ahead of the upcoming winter season. Morole...
Yellow Card Training Camp prepares teams for winter fire season
More than 250 firefighters from 17 teams in the East District of the Eastern Cape attended the Yellow Card Training Camp (YCTC) at Wriggleswade Dam from 4 April to 13 April. According to the Ground Operations Manager of the province, Vuyo Poponi, the YCTC is aimed at...
Change in leadership and back to basics campaign
Working on Fire remains committed to saving lives, protecting our environment and restoring the dignity of firefighters in programme. Working on Fire the award-winning Expanded Public Work Programme, which resides under the Department of Environmental Affairs and is...
Yellow Cards ensure compliance on the fire line
Even though fire is a very valuable resource – used for cooking, creating heat, clearing land for farming and even fighting fire – it has the potential to cause great harm. It is therefore vitally important that Working on Fire’s (WOF) brave men and women, who work...
WOF KZN awards its top achieving fire awareness teams
The Working on Fire KwaZulu-Natal Fire Awareness Department has recognised the best performing teams that conducted fire awareness programmes from the third quarter of the 2016/2017 year with awards. The Utrecht, Thurlow and Umzimkhulu Teams were recognised for doing...
Fire awareness campaign targets vulnerable homes
In preparation for the 2017 winter fire season, the Working on Fire KwaZulu-Natal Team, in partnership with the KZN Office of the Premier, King Cetshwayo Disaster Management Centre and the Umlalazi Fire Department, conducted a door-to-door fire awareness exercise in...