The Walvis Bay municipality has added 15 permanent firefighters to its fire department.
The Mautamanene Fire Station had only 10 permanent firefighters and 19 volunteers before.
According to the chief of fire services, Tutaleni Kathindi, the additional firefighters will help with prompt and 24-hour firefighting response at the town.
“We are now here for 24 hours,” he says.
Kathindi says it is, however, important for the community to also do its part in case of a fire.
He urges the community to call the station as soon as possible when a fire has started.
Kathindi aks that the community refrain from blocking the town’s roads and allow firefighters to do their job.
The new firefighters, comprising young people, assumed work on 1 November.
The municipality will soon add one firefighting water tanker and two rescue vehicles to its fleet of four firefighting pumpers, one rescue vehicle, and one firefighting water tanker.
The station also bid farewell to its 19 volunteers, and honoured Johannes Oberholster, who started volunteering at the station in 1989.
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