Latest WOF News
Western Cape gets ready for Fire Season
690 Working on Fire participants are currently undergoing their annual Yellow Card Training Camp to ensure their readiness for the 2015/2016 Summer Fire Season. “The Yellow Card Training Camp is a good opportunity for our participants to be refreshed on their fire...
Celebrating Disaster Reduction Day
The International Day for Disaster Reduction is a day to celebrate how people and communities are reducing their exposure to disasters. The theme for 2015 focussed on the use of traditional, indigenous and local knowledge to help reduce and plan against disasters. The...
Kgaswane Team teaches workers about fire safety
The Kgaswane Team in the North West Province led a successful fire awareness campaign with the Department of Environmental Affairs’ Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees that are currently working at the Kgaswane Mountain Reserve. The team conducted a...
Western Cape High Altitude Teams conduct cleanup
In celebrating International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR), the Newlands High Altitude Team conducted a cleanup and clearing of invasive species within the Driftsands Nature Reserve. Working on Fire takes pride in the implementation of its Integrated...
Learning from each other
The KwaZulu-Natal Mbazwana Team visited the KZN Ezemvelo Wildlife at the Sibhaya Camp, for a fire awareness campaign focusing on fire behaviour. The awareness was to educate the employees at the Nature Reserve. The Mbazwana Base Communication Representative,...
Western Cape, Mamre Disaster Reduction Day
In commemoration of International Disaster Reduction Day, the Mamre WoF team together with the Cape Peninsula Fire Protection Association conducted a stack burn of cleared Port Jackson vegetation on a private CPFPA member’s property in Klein Dassenberg in effort to...