Article 6: ECUFPA – Our Objectives in terms of integrated fire management principles
The Eastern Cape Umbrella Fire Protection Association is focused on the achievement of the following objectives, for the benefit of its members and the broader community:
Fire Prevention |
| Helping new FPAs to establish in the area covered by the umbrella organisation, in cases where FPAs are still needed. |
| Appointment of FPO. |
| To ensure landowners are educated about forest and rural fire prevention. |
| Communication to landowners & the public regarding veldfire management, landowners are educated about forest and rural fire prevention – fuel load reduction, necessity of fire breaks. |
| Liaison & Coordination with PDMC / NDMC. |
| Exercise the powers and perform the duties delegated to it by the Minister. |
| Communicating FDR. |
| Ensure minimum equipment and personnel standards are met or exceeded while not compromising operational efficiency or effectiveness. |
| Assistance to members of FPAs where court cases arise, such as providing expert witness, and statistical and weather information. |
| Providing equipment, personnel and training standards, where the fires services have not provided these. |
Fire Protection |
| Strategic policy & planning, develop a veldfire management strategy, including the contributions to local disaster management plans. |
| Coordination functions, co-ordination of equipment and other resources between individual FPAs, through such measures as mutual assistance agreements and the standard operating procedures they contain. |
| Facilitating Mutual Aid Agreements. |
| To ensure planning and resources are in place to proactively ensure communities within the area of operation are appropriately protected in the context of rural fire reduction, readiness, response and recovery. |
| Identify the ecological conditions that affect the fire danger, ecosystems, alien plat control. |
| Weather data collection for NFDRS improvements. |
| Provide input data for FDR – veld curing information etc. |
| To implement a radio network to effectively combat emergencies and for the protection for our volunteers / members and the general community. |
| Provide management services, training, capacity building and support for communities in their efforts to manage and control veldfires. |
| Training, where training is not provided by an industry |
| Furnish any information requested by the Minister in order to prepare or maintain the fire danger rating system. |
| Management and maintenance of aerial support services. |
Fire Suppression |
| Manage and co-ordinate all fire suppression operations, fire suppression is coordinated and effective. |
| Aerial support services. |
| Supply of fire incident command specialists / support and coordination between FPAs and other fire fighting agencies. |
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