150 firefighters deployed to help fight Mpumalanga blaze
28 August 2017
Mpumalanga – At least 150 Working on Fire (WoF) firefighters will join the battle to put out fires that have swept through Mpumalanga in the past week.
More than 200 firefighters from the Department of Environmental Affairs' WoF programme have been kept busy trying to extinguish 27 fires throughout the province.
"As the South African Weather Service predicts a 30% chance of rain over parts of Mpumalanga today, weather conditions will increase as the week progresses," the department said in a statement.
One hundred firefighters have been deployed from the Western Cape, and 50 from KwaZulu-Natal.