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City of Tshwane Emergency Services receives new apparatus; Mayor hands over bravery medals
City of Tshwane honoured 17 of its fire fighters with bravery medals
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n Thursday, 3 June 2021, South Africa’s City of Tshwane honoured 17 of its fire fighters with bravery medals for selfless service and commitment to protecting residents by responding swiftly to emergencies. The special event
City of Tshwane showcased the new additions to the EMS fleet
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was held to commend the noble deeds by Tshwane fire fighters who helped to extinguish the Bank of Lisbon Building fire after answering a call to assist their colleagues in Johannesburg in 2018. The City of Tshwane also used the occasion to showcase the newly received fleet of vehicles by the Emergency Services Department. A total of 10 efficient and modern vehicles joined their fleet and include a multi-patient major incident unit built on an Iveco 26.28 Afriway 6x2 bus chassis, an E-One industrial pumper with a compressed air foam system (CAFS), an E-One Water Master (tanker), an E-One foam tender and an E-One foam tanker/pumper, all three built on International IH chassis were built on International (IH) chassis’. The E-One airport rescue and fire fighting apparatus (ARFF) and E-One industrial pumper was built on a custom E-One chassis by
FleetAfrica, the official E-One Dealer Partner in Sub Saharan Africa. All the above was supplied on a full maintenance lease-to-own basis while the WP1800 armoured fire engine, WP1800 armoured ambulance and special infection ambulance built by TFM Industries and supplied by FleetAfrica, is owned outright. City of Tshwane Mayor Randall Williams said at the official handover ceremony, “Together with the MMC for Community Safety Councillor Karen Meyer, we had the honour of bestowing the bravery medals to the 17 fire fighters who were part of the Bank of Lisbon Building operation. An 18th medal was also awarded in absentia. As executive mayor of Tshwane, I would like to thank our fire fighters for being true professionals and for flying the Tshwane flag high. They have earned these bravery medals. It is important that we show our appreciation to the men Volume 6 | No 1
