The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is gravely concerned about the Ekurhuleni Metro’s serious shortage of hydraulic rescue tools (jaws of life), especially in light of the upcoming festive season and rise in road accidents.
This equipment is vital for extricating victims from wreckage following serious collisions.
Yet, a report by the Metro’s Community Safety Oversight Committee reveals that several fire stations in the Metro do not possess their own units, so, units are rotated between multiple stations. Other stations make use of outdated equipment, which is unreliable.
In emergencies, rescue teams often have to wait for equipment from another area, which could result in needless loss of life.
The shortage of jaws of life units is caused by months of supply chain delays, as well as issues relating to budgets and tenders within the Department of Community Safety.
At the moment, Ekurhuleni has only 30 functional fire stations, while legislation requires at least 65 operational stations in terms of the Metro’s population density and geographic area.
So, less than half the prescribed infrastructure is in place.
The Freedom Front Plus, a member of the Oversight Committee, calls on Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza and Mayoral Committee Member for Community Safety, Sizakele Masuku, to intervene at once.
Procuring and properly maintaining this equipment should be a top priority.
Emergency services cannot save lives without the necessary equipment or with broken equipment.
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Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”
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