Duties of Fire Protections Associations

In terms of the National Veld and Forest Fire Act 101 of 1998 duties of the LRFPA are as follows;

• Develop and apply a veldfire management strategy for its area;
• Provide in the strategy for agreed mechanisms for the co-ordination of actions with adjoining fire protection associations in the event of a fire crossing boundaries;
• Make rules which bind its members;
• Identify the ecological conditions that affect the fire danger;
• Regularly communicate the fire danger rating referred to in sections 9 and 10 to its members;
• Organise and train its members in fire fighting, management and prevention;
• Inform its members of equipment and technology available for preventing and fighting veldfires;
• Provide management services, training and support for communities in their efforts to manage and control veldfires;
• Furnish any information requested by the Minister in order to prepare or maintain the fire danger rating system;
• Exercise the powers and perform the duties delegated to it by the Minister.