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Fighting the Kogelberg fire

Murray, VWS crew leader, exits the Squirrel

The latest fire that swept through the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve last week was nothing short of disastrous. Young veld burnt again and all the eleven-year old veld has been destroyed, so that, in the words of a nature conservation official, “everything between Kleinmond and Paarl” […]

Mar 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: conservation, firefighting, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve | One comment

VWS Jonkershoek firefighters in the Franschhoek mountains

Unfortunately – and unsurprisingly – my words were prescient: it has indeed become an “interesting” summer in the Boland mountains. Since December Volunteer Wildfire Services Jonkershoek (VWS-JNK) has been called out at least 6 times to fires in the local mountains (“local” is a relative concept – in our case it means 290 000 ha […]

Feb 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: conservation, firefighting, Jonkershoek Nature Reserve | Leave a comment

Volunteer Wildfire Services Jonkershoek

As I was contemplating a short post about the Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS), and specifically its rookie branch in the Jonkershoek valley, we were called out to mop up a plantation fire above Rozendal yesterday at around 6 pm. It was our first op since 27 Jonkershoek volunteers qualified in November – so there was […]

Dec 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: conservation, firefighting, Jonkershoek Nature Reserve | Leave a comment