by Kishugu | Jul 10, 2023 | Kishugu, Working on Fire
After a 34-day mission combating wildfires in Alberta, Canada, the Mzanzi 1 Hotshots team of the Working on Fire (WOF) Programme has returned home to South Africa. The contingent, consisting of 200 firefighters and 14 management personnel, arrived at the Kruger...
by Kishugu | Jun 15, 2023 | Kishugu, Working on Fire
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment’s Working on Fire Programme’s second contingent of firefighters and managers – the Mzanzi 2 Hotshots – left for Canada today. The 200 firefighters and 13 managers left for Edmonton, Canada, on a chartered...
by Kishugu | Jun 3, 2023 | Kishugu, Working on Fire
A team of 200 firefighters and 15 managers from the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment’s Working on Fire Programme left South Africa today on a fire suppression mission to the province of Alberta, Canada. #MZANZI1 departed from the Kruger...
by Kishugu | Mar 8, 2022 | Kishugu, Working on Fire
“Climate and environmental changes are causing a global increase in wildfires, of which some have the propensity to become large scale disasters,” says Managing Director of the Working on Fire Programme, Trevor Abrahams. He explains that researchers at the University...
by Kishugu | Feb 2, 2022 | Kishugu, Kishugu Aviation, Working on Fire
The 2021/22 summer fire season has highlighted that prioritising aerial support plays a large role in the success rate of extinguishing fires. Western Cape Local Government Minister, Anton Bredell, says 90 percent of fires were extinguished within the first hour due...
