We visited the Sandton Fire Station. I was quite excited about that.
We had an interview with Fency Nkoele and Godfrey Sigudu.They are based at the Sandton Fire Station and are part of the National Disaster Management Forum.They took us on a short tour of Alex to show us structures in place to help assist with managing or controlling floods.
At the fire station they have a weather station(connected to the weather bureau),which monitors levels of the water and if levels rise very high during rainy season the emergency services are alerted,thereafter the trained volunteers that live by the banks of the river are notified to be on standby for help.
They showed us the telemetric structures,the Memeza(Call for Help) structures and the Alex Transit Villages (ATV).The former two are measures used to call for help but they have been vandalised and misused.They have cost over millions to be fitted in.
The latter (ATV) has about over 400 units,with about 15 left for emergencies.The flood victims are the first to be allocated housing,many of which are foreigners.This has left to xenophobic violence in the past because locals complain about waiting for houses for over 10years according to Fency and Godfrey from the Sandton Fire Station.
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