With all the fitness assessments successfully completed and passed, the team turned back to focusing on the current fire season. Over the past few weeks, the Overstrand and Overberg regions have been plagued by multiple wildfires, as can be expected at this time of...
BETTY’S BAY FIRE & RESCUE VOLUNTEERS The time has come once again for the team to re-do their fitness assessments with the Overstrand Municipality. This assessment is done every six months, and each time every member of the team must improve on their results from...
With Fire Season in full swing, the team have been working around the clock, without a break, to keep our community safe. Our regular training has slowed down, with energy and time reserved for visibility drives, duty shifts and responding to incidents. Over the...
BETTY’S BAY FIRE & RESCUE VOLUNTEERS With Fire Season almost upon us, the team is hard at work honing their skills and training sometimes twice a week, to make sure that they are all as prepared as possible to jump into action when the time comes. All new recruits...
OUR LATEST REPORT: The ‘off season’ has been fully utilized for intensive training of the energetic new recruits. Our colleagues from OM Kleinmond Fire & Rescue have committed to helping us fast track our integrated training. Training with the Pringle Bay...
Our new volunteers were not welcomed by a trial of fire but rather by water! The nine volunteers certainly had their hands full responding to all the call-outs for various incidents of flooding, shoveling sand and stones off main roads for their community’s safety. ...
The Betty’s Bay Volunteer Fire Fighters fall under and are supported by the Overstrand Fire and Rescue and the community. We work together and are in many cases the first responders to emergencies. OUR MISSION The volunteers are continuously training and upskilling...
The Betty’s Bay Volunteer Fire Fighters as a group fall under and are supported, to an extent, by the Overstrand Fire and Rescue. We work very closely together and are in many cases the first responders. OUR MISSION The volunteers are continuously training and...
MEDIAVERKLARING / PRESS. RELEASE #Overstrand4all ISSUED BY: Municipal Manager: Dean O’Neill Tel: 028 313 8003 | mm@overstrand.gov.za Overstrand Municipality MEDIA ENQUIRIES: ...
The team caused great delight to the children in our village with their Christmas parade through the streets. From all of them, the awe-struck children, we say thank you! We, the eight Betty’s Bay Community Volunteer Fire & Rescue Team members, would like to thank...