Welcome to the Cape Peninsula Fire Protection Association Website
If fire safety associated with large open tracts of natural vegetation or agricultural cropland areas in the Cape Peninsula or globally is a concern to you, then you are at the right place.
This website highlights the plight of the Cape Peninsula Fire Protection Association (CPFPA) to reduce the damaging ability of unexpected and uncontrolled natural vegetation fires, related to balancing the conservation of natural vegetation with the need to protect human settlements.
Who we are
The CPFPA is a collaborative partnership between private landowners and government managers focused on reducing the risk associated with unexpected runaway fires (vegetation fires). By creating a fire safety governance and operational efficiency framework between the different landowners, where the fuel loads on their properties facilitate the rapid movement of a runaway fire, a partnership allowing quicker access to fire lines, increased collaboration between fie fighting efforts, shared resources and most importantly networking and access to information, will be developed preventing uncertainty and inefficiency as in the past.
The CPFPA encompasses the Cape Peninsula Mountain Chain that stretches from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south - a distance of some 60km, an area of +/- 31 000 ha and a minimum circumference of 150km...Read more
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