Wild Fire Investigation

2002: Act as expert witness and create fire simulations on behalf of the Ngobeni Commission into the Kruger National Park disaster wildfire and created the fire simulations for the commission hearing.

Fire Management Plans

2002: Establishment of Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, Wildfire Management Plans and procedures. (ABB)
2000-2005: Developed and implemented a prescribed burning plan for fire breaks along the National N4 route.
2003: Develop a fire plan for Gilé National Park.
2003: Fire Plan for Hans Merensky Golf Estate Development.
2005: Fire Management Plan Serengeti National Park.
2005: Fire Management Plan in Ngorogoro Conservation areas (Tanzania).
2005: Pilot Integrated Fire Management Program for ITFC (Ghana).
2006: Okavango Delta Fire Management Plan (Botswana) – (ODMP).
2006-2007: Developed and of Integrated Fire management plans and implemented of Integrated fire management for the Department of Agriculture and Conservation of the Gauteng province of South Africa.
2008: Develop fire management policy for Botswana Government (UNDP).
2008: Develop fire management policy for Chikweti National Park in Northern Mozambique.

Prescribed Burning

2002: Wild fire and fire break implementation program and project management for Trans African Concessions (TRAC). 700km fire breaks in four months.
1995-2007: Conduct project management and implementation of all prescribed burning and fire prevention for HL Hall & Sons, Mpumalanga. (South Africa)
2003-2009: Eskom Transmission line fault reduction research program in conjunction with Professor Trollope. This project includes the implementation of a prescribed burning system across South Africa with a value of R5.78 million.
2003: Wild fire and fire break implementation program and project management for Anglo Platinum mining.(South-Africa)
2003-2006: Wild fire and fire break implementation program and project management for BHP Billiton SAM Eastern Chrome mining.
2003: Wild fire and fire break implementation and project management for Dwarsriver mining.(South-Africa)
2003-2006: Wild fire and fire break implementation and project management for Mpumalanga Parks Board.(South-Africa)
2003-2005: Completed successful prescribed burning program in Germany on behalf of the Global Fire Monitoring Centre.
2005: Prescribed Burning
- Serengeti National Park (Frankfurt Zoological Society)
- Ngorongoro Conservation Authority (Frankfurt Zoological Society)
2005-2007: Mpumalanga Parks Board – fire breaks.(South-Africa)
2005: Marakele National Park – fire breaks.
2006: Risk reduction for German Railways (Germany).
2007: Fire management on a number of Mpumalanga Parks Board Reserves.(South-Africa)
2007: Prescribed burning fire management along the National Route (N1).(South-Africa)
2007: Controlled burning for Federal Forest Service, Nature Conservation Bodies and the German Army (Germany).
2007: Implementation of a 3 year contract with Eskom Transmission to control the risk of fire induced faults with prescribed burning along 28,000 km of transmission power lines.
2007: Implemented a burning pilot project on old military exercise land to remove moribund vegetation in Germany in conjunction with the Global Fire Management Center. (Germany).
2008: Pianacci fuel reduction project for private land owner and Cicil Protection and Forest Services (Italy).

Understory Burning

2008-2010: Komatiland Forests, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Fire Management Training

Working on Fire International is an active member of the national sub-committee for the writing of minimum training curriculum requirements and the accreditation of relevant training institutions.
~ Created a Fire Awareness Course for Eskom Transmission, servitude maintenance and Operation Fire Break.
~ Developed the following Wildfire fighting training modules:
Basic Fire Fighter
Crew Leader
Fire Boss
Fire Awareness

2002: Basic Firefighting: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry – Working for Water Program.
2002: Fire Awareness and Basic Firefighting: Eskom Transmission.

2003: Basic Firefighting courses for the following organizations:
· Fire Protection Associations
· Ingwe Coal Mining
· Mpumalanga Parks Board
· Working on Fire
· Working for Water
· Singese Forest Products
· Global Forest Products
· Department of Labour
· Ministry of Forestry & Range Resources in Botswana

2003: Integrated Veld Fire Management for Conservation presented to the Kruger National Park Section Rangers
2003: Fire Boss Level One presented to Singese Forest Products
2003: Wild Fire Investigations
2003: Fire Boss Level One for the District Municipalities of the Western Cape Province
2004: Incident Command training for Southern African Fire managers and fire brigade staff
2004: Training fire brigade staff in Cape Town in Incident Command
2004: Developed and presented an integrated fire management training course for the Mozambique Government Department of Forestry and Conservation.
2004: Hosted and presented certain modules of a Community based fire management training course for Instructors on behalf of the United Nations University and the FAO.
2004-2006: Trained staff members from Kruger National Park in basic fire fighting and prescribed burning methods.
2005: Wild fire investigation training
2005: Incident command training for South African and African fire managers and fire brigade staff
2005: Basic Firefighting
- Marakele National Park
- Kruger National Park
2005: Trained staff members of the Marakele National park in basic firefighting and prescribed burning methods.
2005: Fire management training in Ngorogoro Conservation areas (Tanzania).
2005-2006: Gorongosa National Park – fire training (Mozambique).
2006: Fire Management Training for Department of Forestry & Range Resources Botswana.
2006: Incident command training for South African and African countries fire managers
2007: Supplied prescribed training for Fire Fighters in Gorongosa, Mozambique.
2007: Supplied fire management training and hand tools to Global Forest of Uganda.
2006 -2007: Basic Firefighting
- Marakele National Park
- Kruger National Park
- HL Halls & Sons
- Greater Marakele National Park
- Gorongosa National Park
- Dept of Range & Resources of Botswana
- Mondi
- Sappi
2006-2007: Crew Leader
- HL Halls & Sons
- Johannesburg City Parks
- Marekele National Park
- Dept of Range & Resources of Botswana
- Ngorongoro Conservation Authority
- Mondi
- Sappi
2007: Training Kruger National Park personnel in Basic Firefighting
2007: Wildfire investigation training
2007: Incident Command training for South African and African countries fire managers
2007: Training Gorongosa National Park in Prescribed Burning
2007: Training various personal Incident Command
2007: Training Global Woods Uganda in Basic Fire Management
2007: Training forestry companies personnel in Advance Firefighting
2007: Fire management workshop for Serengeti National Park (Frankfurt Zoological Society)
2009: Fire Management Training, Commercial Forests, Niassa Province, Mozambique
2009: Fire Management Training, Mauritius & Rodrigues Islands

Wild Fire Research

2006- 2009: Participating in the SAVFire research experiment in the Kruger National Park

Wild Fire Risk Management

1999: The establishment of a wild fire fault risk assessment system, Eskom Transmission.
2003: Eskom North Eastern Region - 5 000 km transmission power lines.
2003: Eskom Western Cape – 4 000 km transmission power lines.
2006: Eskom Eastern Region – 5 900 km transmission power lines.

Fire Spread Modeling

2001: Ngobeni Commission on 2001 disaster fire in KwaZulu Natal.

Incident Management

2003-2009: Working on Fire poverty relief community based integrated wild fire management program. This project is a Department of Water affairs and Forestry and Department of local government project. The programs are a R394 Million Rand a year pilot program over a six-year period.
2007: Assisted the UN with Incident command expertise with wildfires in Kosovo.

Turn Key Integrated Fire Management for Carbon Sequestration Projects

2008-2010: Peace Parks Foundation – Western Zambia
2008-Ongoing : Mozambique

Development & Implementation of the Integrated Fire Management Systems

2005: Developed a pilot fire management program with ITFC in Ghana.
2003-2010: Working on Fire Programme South Africa

Development & Implementation of Aerial Firefighting & Dispatch & Coordination Systems

2003-2007: Developed an aerial firefighting system for the South African Government using Helicopters supported by ground crews.
2003-2007: Developed a dispatch and coordination system for the South African Government.

Fire Management Equipment

2006: Firefighting Tools & Equipment – FAO Botswana.
2007: Supplied tools and trained Fire Fighters in Croatia for the FAO.
2008-2010: Firefighting Tools - Kikonda Forest Reserve - Uganda
2008-2010: Firefighting Tools & Equipmen - Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Wild Fire Education & Awareness

2001: Community based Wild Fire awareness programme for Lowveld and Escarpment Fire Protection Association.
2011: Hosting of the Wild Fire International Conference in South Africa.

Wild Fire Policy Development

2007: Support EuroFire project in developing standards, training material and French translations (Germany).
2008: UNDP Botswana Government Fire Management Plan.
2008: UNDP Mauritius Government Fire Management Plan.