Disaster Management satellite office opened
Member of Mayoral Committee for Community Safety in Ekurhuleni, Clr Mthuthuzeli Siboza officially opened the Disaster Management satellite office in Kempton Park, on Tuesday.
Formally a garage, the premises are now a place in which plans to reduce disaster and the impacts thereof will be mapped.
Since the new office is at the door step of the OR Tambo International Airport, employees at the satellite office will work closely with airport authorities to put into place and improve systems and procedures to monitor and react to disaster risk.
According to Siboza, the opening of the Disaster Management satellite office will enable the municipality to provide improved disaster management services to the communities in the area.
“The building will house disaster management functionaries and these will be working with communities to reduce disaster risks,” he said.
“The coordination of smaller disaster and humanitarian events may also be managed from this venue and so this venue becomes an important cog in the disaster management wheel,” said Siboza.
