Fire & Emergency
Betty’s Bay Fire and Rescue Volunteers – November 2025
With the last official month of training season coming to a close, the team has completed their last chapter of the 5th Edition of Fire Fighting Essentials for the season, and will now begin to gear up for the upcoming Fire Season. FIRE & RESCUE: We are grateful...
Betty’s Bay Fire and Rescue Volunteers Updated – October 2025
With the last official month of training season coming to a close, the team have completed their last chapter of the 5th Edition of Fire Fighting Essentials for the season, and will now begin to gear up for the upcoming Fire Season. FIRE & RESCUE: We are grateful...
Fire and Rescue Update – August 2025
With training season in full swing, the team have starting with monthly theory training and assessments on the 5th Edition of Fire Fighting Essentials, which each Reservist is required to complete alongside the municipal crew. In July, the team successfully completed...
Fire and Rescue Volunteers Update – July 2025
As winter sets in, the comforting glow of warming fires becomes a familiar sight, helping to keep us cozy at home during the colder months. Along with this, comes an added risk of house fires within our community. The most common cause of house fires in winter is...
Fire & Rescue Volunteer Update – June 2025
Another month has passed, and it feels like winter is officially upon us. Training for the team intensifies with an emphasis on practical strength training, the team using their everyday equipment to build their stamina. Weekly standby duties will continue as normal,...
Betty’s Bay Fire & Rescue Volunteers
OUR LATEST REPORT: Another month has passed, and we slowly keep into the winter months, and the start of our teams training season. Each month the team completes a fitness assessment, along with other invaluable practical training, which is often combined with the...
Fire and Rescue Update – April 2025
After a very busy Fire Season so far, the team are grateful for the current calm while their focus shifts to their official training season starting again in May. Shifts continue to be planned with crew on a standby roster throughout the week. The team remains...
Betty’s Bay Fire and Rescue Services
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...
Fire and Rescue Volunteers – February 2025
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...
Betty’s Bay Fire and Rescue Volunteers – January 2025
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...
Fire and Rescue Volunteers
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...
Betty’s Bay Fire and Rescue Volunteers – August 2024
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...
Betty’s Bay Fore & Rescue Services – July 2024
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. ...
Betty’s Bay Fire & Rescue Volunteers – June 2024
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...
Fire and Rescue Volunteers – November 2023
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...
Understanding Your Fire Risk
MEDIAVERKLARING / PRESS. RELEASE #Overstrand4all ISSUED BY: Municipal Manager: Dean O’Neill Tel: 028 313 8003 | mm@overstrand.gov.za Overstrand Municipality MEDIA ENQUIRIES: ...
Betty’s Bay Community Volunteer Fire & Rescue
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...
Be Wildfire Ready
Download the emergency guide to property owners in High Wild Fire inclined area. Know the risk profile of the Western Cape, understand a "fire wise community" and our risk of fire. Be prepared for a fire emergency. Assess your personal risk. Learn...
In Case of Fire: Do you have a plan?
Download, print and personalise your own EMERGENCY PLAN to display in a visble place in the home - 2. OUR FIRE PLAN Final Sheet2 copy
Different types of fires and how to deal with them
TO REPORT A FIRE: CALL 028 312 2400 The winter months are almost upon us and as our days and nights are getting chillier, the heaters are being dusted off and the fireplaces stacked with wood. This is the most common time of year for chimney and electrical fires....
Adopt A Fire Hydrant
This is not a new concept. However, we are going to simplify it to the max! We are appealing to EVERYONE to play a part in supporting the "Adopt A Hydrant" movement. Quite simply, if there is 1 or more fire hydrants near your property which is obstructed or neglected,...