TRAINING !!!!!
It’s that time of the year, time to get everyone trained for the upcoming fire season. We will be offering the following courses:
Basic Fire Fighting
Basic Fire Fighting refresher
Fire Boss
Control burn course
Please take note of the following: If you would like to attend any course please send an email to Esme (info@winelandsfpa.co.za), clearly stating the course you would like to take and the number of people the will attend as well. We ask that you provide us with the following information:
Name and Surname, contact number
WFPA membership number and farm name
We will then put your name on the list and send you a quote for the training you requested. We need a minimum of 12 people per course to arrange the training. We will try and arrange it with the FMU’s.
Control burning allowed from 3rd May to 28th October 2021 ONLY WITH VALID PERMIT
BURN PERMIT APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON THURSDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2021
Landowners can apply for a permit to carry out control burn by using the link below. Do note that it may take up to 14 workdays for the inspection to take place and the permit to be approved by an officer of the CWDM fire service. CWDM Fire service Officer will contact the applicant to arrange a time at which the inspection will take place.
USE LINK BELOW TO APPLY ONLINE:
FIRE DANGER INDEX (FDI)
Below the South African Weather Services FDI forecast. This is the only legally accepted FDI in South Africa.
01 May 2021
- Stellenbosch (DANGEROUS) 56
- Paarl (DANGEROUS) 58
- Ceres (DANGEROUS) 58
- Worcester (DANGEROUS) 58
- Robertson (DANGEROUS) 54
02 May 2021
- Stellenbosch (VERY DANGEROUS) 67
- Paarl (DANGEROUS) 58
- Ceres (VERY DANGEROUS) 64
- Worcester (VERY DANGEROUS) 65
- Robertson (VERY DANGEROUS) 65
03 May 2021
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.
FMUs
Please select a region/ward on the image map to see the relevant leader's contact information.
Breede Valley
Leader's name:
Esme Jordaan
Contact Number:
079 656 4673
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Ceres Kouebokkeveld
Leader's name:
Ben Du Toit
Contact Number:
083 564 3394
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Ceres Witzenberg
Leader's name:
Robert Zulch
Contact Number:
082 416 6368
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Drakenstein
Leader's name:
Kuba Miszewski
Contact Number:
082 080 7258
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Langeberg
Leader's name:
Adrian Robinson
Contact Number:
072 550 7602
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Stellenbosch
Leader's name:
Patrick Shone
Contact Number:
083 467 0405
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Tulbagh Wolseley
Leader's name:
Ralf Harle
Contact Number:
082 318 7362
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Warm & Kouebokkeveld LV
Leader's name:
Sebastian Wolfaardt (Afterhours)
Contact Number:
071 423 8451
Suretha (BBV Secretary)
Contact Number:
023 316 1230
For all help & general information:
Esmé Jordaan
079 656 4673
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
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.