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Bethal Community Emergency Exercise

CAER Awareness Day

20 September 2008
CAER Awareness Day

On 20 September 2008 (CAER) Community Awareness and Emergency Response hosted an Awareness Day for the community of the Govan Mbeki region, in Secunda South Africa.

The aim of the Caer Awareness Day was to reinforce the vision of CAER which is to “facilitate proactive emergency management to the benefit of the Govan Mbeki Community”.

Community emergency information from emergency and support services professionals such as the traffic department, SAPS, the emergency medical services (Ambulance) and many more was utilised on this day to keep the Govan Mbeki community aware on how to handle cases of major emergences in the area.

Emergency exercises by the emergency and support services professionals were implemented to keep the community involved in the process of alerting and handling major emergences.

Prizes were won by adults and children from the community the main prize was a romantic 2 night stay for two at the magnificent Dawson’s Game and Trout Lodge for one couple, valued at R6, 500. The Caer Awareness Day had lots of fun and games for the kids such as waterslides, jumping castles, clowns, face painting and more.

Emergency Exercise 2011

Operation Alert, simulated incident took place Wednesday 30th November 2011.
Location - At the intersection of Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo Drives, Secunda, South Africa.

Police crime scene experts on the scene at Operation Alert.

Operation Alert simulated scene: A large chemical tanker collides with a low bed carrier containing a cargo of Sulphur. The collision involves two passenger taxis. Some of the casualties can be seen.

Aerial view of the scene showing hazardous material spillage.

Fire-fighters dealing with a casualty.

Emergency Services manage the scene.

Chemical detector dog and handler, specialist team at Operation Alert.

Mr Rymond Bruwer, Operation Alert Committee Convener manages the evaluator feedback session, post the exercise.

Awareness Day 2010

Saturday 30 October, 2010

CAER Awareness Day
Saturday 31 October, 2009

Sasol Dog unit
Dog handler Barries with Ginger from the Sasol Dog Unit. Ginger sniffed out 0.06mg of synthetic marijuana scent. The scent was especially shipped in by Sasol. Very clever doggie!

Saturday 14 March, 2009
Cosmos 3 to 1 Marathon

CAER volunteers Benneth Mathebula & Freddie Kruger at the Cosmos 3 to 1 Marathon in Secunda.

29 October 2008
Bethal Community Emergency Exercise - Operation Masibambane

The Govan Mbeki Community Awareness & Emergency Response Team (CAER) hosted a simulated emergency exercise in Bethal on 29 October 08.

The purpose of the exercise was to test the effectiveness and response of the various emergency services and the liaison between all the affected parties and the community. This also demonstrated readiness for handling 2010 Soccer related emergencies in the Govan Mbeki area.

The objective of the CAER initiative is to ensure that the key role players: Govan Mbeki Municipality, Sasol, Transnet and the community are prepared to take the correct action should hazardous chemicals emergency incidents occur in the Govan Mbeki Municipal area.

One of the tools used to ensure that this philosophy becomes a reality is to simulate a hazardous chemical emergency exercise as a hands-on training session. The exercise was performed under controlled conditions in conjunction with the emergency management service teams that would normally respond to hazardous material incidents.

Mr. Hannes Du Toit, Convener of the CAER committee said, “Our vision is to facilitate proactive emergency management to the benefit of the Govan Mbeki Municipal area to ensure that the community and the relevant emergency and support service providers are prepared and informed on how to react should a major emergency situation occur. We plan to host similar emergency exercises every three years”.

Mr. Lucas Mahlangu, Govan Mbeki Municipal Communication specialist said, “Several emergency and support service providers such as the Govan Mbeki Traffic Department, the South African Police Services & Emergency Medical Services participated in the simulated emergency exercise”. Due to the extent of the exercise, a small section of Holland Street between Bethal and Hendrina was closed for traffic from 04:00 until 17:00

CAER assures the community that there was no environmental impact or damage caused, as a result of the exercise.

Emergency Numbers
Sasol	017 610 4444 Cellphone 112
Fire / Rescue	017 631 0155 Cellphone 107
Police	017 070 9991 Cellphone 10111
Ambulance	017 632 1894 Cellphone 10177
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29 October 2008
Operation Masibambane Gala Dinner

Operation Masibambane Gala Dinner held Tuesday 28th October 2008 at the Graceland Hotel and Casino in Secunda. The MC for the evening was Leanne Manas of TV2's Morning Live.

Leanne Manas with the Mayor of Govan Mbeki and the CAER committee at the Gala Dinner.

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