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Don't condemn firefighters returning from Canada - minister

 

Cape Town - The 301 firefighters who were deployed to Canada to help suppress wildfires there are to return home on Tuesday, the department of environmental affairs said on Monday.

It also urged South Africans not to condemn the firefighters who, shortly after their arrival, embarked on a strike over their salaries.

In a statement, the department said the firefighters should be welcomed home after Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molwa sent a mediator from Working on Fire (WoF) to Canada to assist in resolving the dispute between the management of WoF and the team of firefighters.

"[He] and a high level management team from WoF, accompanied by the South African High Commissioner to Canada, Mr Membathisi Mdladlana, met with the firefighters to address their concerns.

 

"Their engagement was aimed at ensuring that through negotiations there is a normalisation of the situation and resolution to their dispute so that the firefighters continue with their deployment to suppress wildfires in the Canadian state of Alberta or return safely home owing to [a change of weather] where it started raining heavily."

The department said it was because of the rain that international firefighters were no longer needed to fight the flames.

"We remain immensely proud of our well-trained firefighters who have done excellent work over a number of years, which has been recognised by the international firefighting community," said Molewa.

"The successful team was instrumental in fighting the fires in our country and saved lives, especially during the worst-recorded veldfires that ravaged the Western Cape last year.

"We call upon the nation not to condemn the firefighters. Condemning them for disappointing us can only demoralise them despite their successful track-record. Upon their arrival at home, we will engage with them to adopt appropriate mechanisms through which they could raise any legitimate concerns in future, should they have any."

 

The department said there would be an internal inquiry to ascertain what contributed to the dispute.

 

 

They landed in SA in the early hours of this morning.

[Warren_G]

LOL  If you didn't record the ride on Garmin/Strava it didn't happen

http://www.lavelocita.cc/opinion-page/data-disconnection

Edited June 14, 2016 by Warren_G

[cfcjim]

LOL  If you didn't record the ride on Garmin/Strava it didn't happen

http://www.lavelocita.cc/opinion-page/data-disconnection

If a tree falls in a forest etc.

 

That is pretty funny. I like the "Dramatic Re-enactment".

[Warren_G]

Tattoo Tuesday?

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[Warren_G]

 

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[Slowbee]

Labs can SWIM! Picked up 800 metres offshore. Was probably doing the False bay swim! Cool story

the poor dog was in a sad and sorry state. it was freezing cold !!! Getting the core up took alot of patience and warm blankets ! Lucky was well looked after and fed so not just skinny bones. Poor thing was frozen and shocked.

 

The big worry was the amount of sodium in the body and potential secondary issues.

 

the distance offshore ... well umm say no more.

[Slowbee]

The owners of Zena are very close friends of mine. 

They recently moved from Pretoria to CT.

It has been a horrible experience for them and an amazing story.

 

Wonder how he ended up there and then the sad question, did the other one follow Zena and not make it?

Hope not and that there will be a happy ending.

Zena got lost while and when she was chased by a good samaritan she ran a bit into the surf, got caught by a wave (we are storming here) and then the rip current took her.

 

Our local animal welfare was apparently there the whole time and things happened relatively quickly.

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[Cyclewizz]

Now this is a .....

 

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bus wins

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Happy Wednesday peeps!!

 

no man Morph. You can do better...