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Suikerbos Team – top performance in fires awareness campaigns
The Suikerbos Team in Gauteng has recently become the top performing team nationally, for their fire awareness programmes within the community. It obtained the number one spot and in the process the team received an award of R1000. Sipho Dhladhla, Fire Awareness...
Fire fighters receives high praise from government
On the 15th of April 2015 the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan, thanked fire fighters for their excellent services rendered during the devastating veld fires in the Western Cape fire season. “The work of the fire fighters from...
Mpumalanga Fire Awareness spreads to military bases
Mpumalanga, Community Awareness Officer Mbuso Siwela, conducted a fire awareness workshop at the Macadamia Military base in Komatipoort near Nkomazi. The workshop took place in the third week of March. The Community Fire Awareness Officer was invited to ensure that...
EC women gets Eastern Cape driving
Late last year the Eastern Cape appointed their second female driver in the province as part of the Working on Fire’s commitment to empower women in the programme. Ntombentle Nqunda, 26, from the Ugie base joined Working on Fire as a fire fighter in February 2010. She...
From fire fighter to Crew Leader and now an environmentalist in the making
“I am a person who likes to learn things from other people and understand different cultures and I am also a person with self-confidence who believes in putting words into action”, said HAT Type 2 Crew Leader Howard Mathebula who hails from a small village called...
Fire awareness campaign welcomed in KZN communities
After assessing the fire statistics from last year, KZN Working on Fire identified three areas that had the most fires and initiated an integrated fire awareness campaign in those areas. Qhudeni was one of the areas chosen as it had around 30 fire call-outs in 2014....