Fighting fires
2009-02-05
Fire fighters, pilots and the organisations co-ordinating veld fire fighting operations, sharpened up procedures at an intensive training session arranged by Working on Fire (WoF) in Tulbagh last week. The aim of the training session, which involved organisations like Winelands District Council, three helicopters, a spotter plane and a number of fire fighting crews, was to streamline and co-ordinate communications between organisations involved in veld fire fighting. WoF is a Government-funded programme, formed in 2003 to develop an integrated national wild fire fighting prevention and wild fire fighting capacity. It includes a job creation component with fire fighters being recruited from marginalised communities and put through extensive training programmes equipping them to become skilled veld and forest fire fighters.
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