14 May 2012
Yesterday, Sunday the 13th May 2012, saw the official birth of the South Peninsula Station with a training orientation session for New Recruits. The weather was perfect with not a breath of wind. Nature smiling you could say. The orientation was held in the tranquil beauty of Gordons Camp in Glencairn which made us all [...]
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03 May 2012
With the application season having just closed for the VWS Newlands station (based in Newlands Forest Fire Base), the training season started in earnest. The first few sessions have taken place around the VWS base to introduce the new recruits to the skills that they will be expected to master in the coming session. These [...]
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02 May 2012
Applications will close soon for new recruits to join us for the 2012 Training Season at the South Peninsula Station. However, applications have closed for the Jonkershoek and Newlands Stations. If you are not already on our email lists, please email one of the following station contacts and ask to be added to the email [...]
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01 May 2012
For the third week in a row Table Mountain National Park carried out a prescribed ecological burn, this time in Silvermine West (on 25 April 2012). Due to the fact that the fire season has been particularly quiet this year, the burns have been required to help with the fynbos ecology and to help manage [...]
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24 April 2012
For the second time in a week a huge column of smoke could be seen rising from the slopes of Signal Hill. Once again, it was a well planned, controlled and coordinated prescribed burn involving Table Mountain National Park, Volunteer Wildfire Services, Contractors and Working on Fire all working to ensure a ‘controlled’ burn was [...]
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17 April 2012
Each year during the summer fire season, smoke can be seen rising from Signal Hill at some point or another due to the numerous small fires that burn in the grassy slopes near the noon gun. However, last Thursday (12 April 2012) a large plume of smoke could be seen rising off of the city [...]
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