KZN warned to brace for winter fire season
Working on Fire in KwaZulu-Natal is urging all landowners to prepare for the winter fire season.
It says since the end of June, emergency personnel were kept busy for a week, attending to 53 veld and forest fires.
More than 13 teams were dispatched to various parts of the province, including Eshowe, Kokstad, Melmoth and Ulundi.
Spokesperson Nompilo Zondi says their teams have been keeping a close watch on the fire danger index.
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They're conducting fire breaks across the province to reduce the risk of blazes.
"The causes of these fires mostly are people starting fires when it is not safe to do so.
"Landowners will know that before you start a fire block or a block burn, you actually go to your fire station where they give you that heads up that say ok it’s good to burn or it's not good to burn, where they give you a permit that allows you to burn or now.
"In most areas, people just decide to burn without actually going through or researching on South African Weather Service whether it is sage to do so for that day."
