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)
02 DECEMBER 2024
- Stellenbosch 49
- Paarl 51
- Ceres 59
- Worcester 63
- Robertson 64
03 DECEMBER 2024
- Stellenbosch 48
- Paarl 50
- Ceres 45
- Worcester 59
- Robertson 66
04 DECEMBER 2024
- Stellenbosch 56
- Paarl 56
- Ceres 57
- Worcester 67
- Robertson 75
05 DECEMBER 2024
- Stellenbosch 52
- Paarl 57
- Ceres 50
- Worcester 58
- Robertson 67
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.
Breede Valley
Leader's name:
Gerrie van Zyl
Contact Number:
082 336 4924
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Ceres Kouebokkeveld
Leader's name:
CP du Toit
Contact Number:
083 388 9757
Marlandi van den Heever (Secretary)
Contact Number:
071 886 9762
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Ceres Witzenberg
Leader's name:
Johan & Fourie Zulch
Contact Number:
082 569 9005 / 072 460 2580
Carine Botes (Secretary)
Contact Number:
023 313 3226
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Drakenstein
Leader's name:
Kuba Miszewski
Contact Number:
082 080 7258
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Langeberg
Leader's name:
Adrian Robinson
Contact Number:
072 550 7602
Jackie Robinson (Secretary)
Contact Number:
083 4533 529
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Stellenbosch
Leader's name:
Willa Visagie
Contact Number:
072 669 1764
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Tulbagh Wolseley
Leader's name:
Nic Dicey
Contact Number:
083 235 7235
Lucilia Turner (Secretary)
Contact Number:
072 244 5994
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Warm & Kouebokkeveld LV
Leader's name:
Neil Conradie
Contact Number:
071 390 1539
Suretha (BBV Secretary)
Contact Number:
023 316 1230
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za