Workers risk lives to save farmer from fire
Workers risk lives to save farmer from fire
20 November 2012
published by www.news24.com
South Africa–– Bloemfontein – Two farmworkers risked their lives to save their employer who was about to be engulfed by flames during a veld fire on his farm Witvlei in the Northern Cape.
Slimly built Arrie Meyer, 30, and Andries Depone, 44, did not hesitate to rush through flames to carry the 200kg Johan de Bruyn, 65, to safety, reported Volksblad.
De Bruyn, a former Springbok prop, was fighting the fire on his farm when his car became stuck and as he got out, he slipped and fell.
Depone said he saw the fire was going to reach De Bruyn and decided to go in to help him. He said he didnt think twice because De Bruyn was a good man.
I was a bit scared but I took the chance to save him, said Depone who along with Meyer, carried the farmer by the arms.
Meyer said there was no one else on the farm and De Bruyn needed help.
I dont know where we got the strength. All I could think of was [saving] him from the fire.
The farmers wife, Nettie de Bruyn said she was deeply grateful to the two men.
We arent the farmers and they the workers. We all work together here on Witvlei.
De Bruyn was admitted to hospital with burn wounds to his legs, arm and hand. He is in a stable condition.
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmafUgo3
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmafUgo3
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmafUgo3
Two summers of unprecedented rain and unusually cool temperatures have left a large fuel load of grass and unburnt forest areas in and around Canberra.
A network of 500 fire trails and strategic burns along the north-west urban edge, heavy grazing and extra grass slashing will create a fortress for the territory which forecasters say faces a higher than average risk this summer.
After a fire-fuelled tornado in January 2003 killed four Canberrans and frightened thousands more, CSIRO fire expert Phil Cheney told the subsequent inquiry the fire’s penetration into urban areas under extreme conditions did not reflect a failure of fuel management on the urban interface.
Read more:http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/red-alert-for-high-risk-of-fires-20121118-29koa.html#ixzz2CmaXNjum
The failure was in the forest areas.Advertisement
Following a 10-year strategy, ACT fire managers have created a mosaic across the landscape of different fuel levels, burning at every opportunity.
But forests have been too wet to burn this spring and the past two summers.
