🔥 To inform and train our community on the risks of fire and to ensure fire prevention and planning is used to mitigate fire in our area.

🔥 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