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WHAT WE DO

As the goFPA, we’re here to help you, as a landowner, to be ready and prepared for fire season.

During fire season, it’s our job to help you should you experience a wildfire.

HOW DO WE HELP?

Integrated Fire Management Planning

  • We help you to become legally compliant, as per national regulations
  • We identify high risk areas and help with risk reduction
  • We support Fire Management Plans
  • We facilitate fire break planning for communal areas and strategic fire breaks
  • We offer advice on compliance with the law (National Veld and Forest Fire Act)
  • We help map members
  • We offer advice on Integrated Fire Management (including fire breaks, fuel reduction, equipment needed, etc.)

Fire Preparedness

  • We organise training courses (including courses on Basic Fire Suppression, Controlled Burning, Infield Simulation and more)
  • We provide a daily Fire Danger Index forecast during the fire season
  • We watch the Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS), which provides early fire detection warning.
  • We support awareness: Media, Social Media and general public
  • We facilitate Fire Management Unit preparedness
  • We support stakeholder engagement (including with the Fire Brigade, Eskom, Farmers’ Associations, Working on Fire, Municipalities, MTO Forestry, Transnet, CapeNature, SANParks, FynbosFire, NGOs, national government departments, donors, conservancies, landscape initiatives like the Agulhas Biodiversity Initiative, and more.)

And then, when it’s burning

 

We provide coordination, resource procurement and critical information to decision makers to ensure effective and efficient fire fighting efforts.

 

The goFPA does not

  • Provide a firefighting service;
  • Fulfil the role of the fire brigade services;
  • Receive any income from the collection of rates levied by municipalities. Neither do we pay over any funds towards municipalities;
  • Get involved in structural firefighting or related issues;
  • Enforce membership to the organisation. Membership is voluntary other than for state organisations that own land or manage land, for which membership is compulsory.

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD

LCES: Your wildfire defence strategy

LCES: Your wildfire defence strategy

At EVERY fire you participate in fighting, PLEASE bear this acronym in mind: LCES. It’ll help you to stay safe. It’s one of the most important defence strategies against an unpredictable wildfire. LCES must be updated and amended, as the fire’s behaviour and movements change. Stay on top of

Meet the new Divisional Commanders

Meet the new Divisional Commanders

Daniel de Kock is the new Divisional Commander in the Swellendam district for Overberg Fire & Rescue. Daniel joins the Overberg team from Breede Valley Fire and Rescue in Worcester. Working as a fire-fighter isn’t simply a job for Daniel: it’s a dream come true, as he chose this

Do’s and don’ts of a Red Day

Do’s and don’ts of a Red Day

There’s no higher wildfire threat level than a Red Day. You’ll know we’re facing a Red Day in the Overberg, by keeping an eye on our daily Fire Danger Index. When you see red, it means we’ll be experiencing a hot day, with low humidity and very strong winds – the perfect combination for

CONTACT goFPA

Email: info@overbergfpa.co.za

 

+27 (0) 28 425 1690

GIVE

You can get involved by providing goods to energise our fire-fighters. Here’s a list of non-perishable items you can drop off – that help sustain our fire-fighters working hard to protect our homes and nature

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