The Nelson Mandela Bay Community came to the rescue of firefighters as their fire-trucks ran out of water.
Athol Trollip, Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, posted a thank you to the community for assisting the firefighters.
It’s hard to imagine that something as horrifying as fire could create the space for us to give meaning to uBuntu, in exactly the way Madiba and Helen Suzman would have wanted.
Amongst the destruction, trauma and heartbreak lies a special gift – seeing South Africans unite, shoulder to shoulder.
When fire engines started running out of water and fire hydrants stopped working yesterday evening, I made a public appeal for mobile water tankers to be brought to the entrance of Woodridge College on the outskirts of the Municipality.
Within 10 minutes the first truck had arrived and by 2 hours later over 100 trucks and bakkies had brought tens of thousands of litres of water for use by fire engines.
Black, Indian, coloured, white, young, old, male, female. I saw South Africans at our very best, as one.
To everyone else who helped in any way, and to our hero firefighters – I am so grateful.
We are better together. I believe in South Africa.
Athol
Here are some of the pictures that were taken of community members bringing water to the firefighters:
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