Fire Protection Associations are formed and governed under the National Veldfire Act (Act 101 of 1998) as voluntary associations of Landowners who wish to cooperate for the purpose of predicting, preventing, managing and extinguishing veldfires.

OUR AIMS & OBJECTIVES

The Winelands FPA is not a firefighting organisation. Fire suppression operations are conducted according to the Fire Brigade Services Act and remain the responsibility of the Cape Winelands District Municipality.

Aims:

Contribute to community development by reducing injuries, losses to lives, property and the environment due to wildfires
Promote Integrated Fire Management together with the useful role of wildfires
Protect mountain catchment areas to protect future fresh water supplies
Protect the high levels of biodiversity, endemism and red data species of the Cape Floristic Region

Objectives:

Reduce the incidence and spread of wildfires
Promote cooperation and coordination between all role players in wildfires
Deploy a veldfire management strategy throughout the FPA area
Develop and implement IFMPs for the Fire Management Units
Empower landowners in IFM
Awareness and compliance of landowners to the NVFFA
Compliance of members to the agreed FPA rules
Increase in FPA members
Awareness to the general public on wildfires
Identify and reduce the risks within high fire risk areas
Create MOUs and working agreements with neighbouring Fire Brigade Services and FPAs
Ensure an adequate wildfire reporting system is in place for all reporting requirements

WHAT WE DO

Creating a fire management plan for the region
Identifying high risk areas and assisting with mitigation of these risks
Identifying strategic fire breaks and assisting with the creation of them
Serve as the link between landowners and the Fire Brigade Services for wildfires and prescribed burns
Facilitating the issuing of burn permits in the Cape Winelands District Municipality
Facilitate training to members and key role players
Advise members on PPE and equipment and refer them to suitable retailers
Facilitate cooperation and coordination between landowners with regards to IFM
Setting up FMUs with good leadership, and support and empower this leadership in IFM practices
Facilitating the setting up of sufficient communication systems with and between members
Assist Cape Winelands DM and landowners with Incident Command at fires as required
Organisation/planning of professional coordinated incident response to fires
Assist with the coordination of invasive alien plant clearing for best mitigation in high fire risk areas
Assist in the awareness of the public about wildfires

THE WINELANDS FPA DOES NOT

Provide a firefighting service although assistance at larger fires can be provided.
Fulfill the role of the fire brigade services.
Receive any income from the collection of rates levied by municipalities neither does it 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 which own land or manage land for which membership is compulsory.

DISCLAIMER

The Winelands FPA is not a firefighting organisation. Fire suppression operations are conducted according to the Fire Brigade Services Act and remain the responsibility of the Cape Winelands District Municipality.

FIRE DANGER INDEX (FDI)

30 AUGUST 2024

Stellenbosch 42 42
Paarl 46 46
Ceres 46 46
Worcester 40 40
Robertson 56 56

31 AUGUST 2024

Stellenbosch 53 53
Paarl 58 58
Ceres 52 52
Worcester 54 54
Robertson 60 60

01 SEPTEMBER 2024

Stellenbosch 39 39
Paarl 38 38
Ceres 39 39
Worcester 31 31
Robertson 44 44

02 SEPTEMBER 2024

Stellenbosch 60 60
Paarl 60 60
Ceres 53 53
Worcester 48 48
Robertson 56 56

Disclaimer: Neither WFPA nor its partners can be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising out of or in connection with the use of the FDI information provided. The WFPA does not and cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided. It remains the responsibility of the landowner to take weather status into account, on the specific day, when doing a controlled burn or fighting a fire. If you have any difficulties in obtaining the FDI please contact us.

FIRE MANAGEMENT UNITS (FMU’S)

FMUs

Please select a region/ward on the image map to see the relevant leader's contact information.