Christmas lunches and festivities were forgotten today (25 December 2012) by dedicated, caring NSRI crewmen countrywide. They rallied to help in crisis situations in St Francis Bay and elsewhere in the country
STATION 21 ST FRANCIS BAY:
NSRI volunteers from St Francis Bay were called out to help fight a fire that broke out in a thatched roof house at no 5 Canal road on Sr Francis Bay’s canals. St Francis Bay firemen and local disaster management were on the scene in minutes and battled the fierce blaze but the house could not be saved.
According to Marc May, St Francis Bay NSRI station commander, because the fire fighting teams doused the roofs of neighboring houses, and pulled thatch that was burning out, they managed to save five houses and the fire was prevented from spreading further. Three of the St Francis Bay volunteers sustained burns while fighting the fire. They have been treated and released by the 24/7 private Ambulance service.
Then at 5.30 pm St Francis Bay NSRI volunteers were asked to take two SAP officers to a chokka boat off Oyster Bay where a crewman was allegedly threatening fellow crew with a knife. The St Francis Bay volunteers launched Spirit of St Francis II and took two SAP officers to the Oresta, 1,5 miles off Thys Point (Thyspunt).
On the ship the SAP men detained a 32 year-old crewman. He was taken back to the St Francis Bay Sea Rescue base on board the rescue boat and is now in the custody of the SAP.
Onlookers were told to leave the scene as the man was apparently quite violent.
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See also related posts:
https://stfrancischronicle.com/2012/11/11/canals-are-burning/
http://www.algoafm.co.za/article.aspx?id=4038
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