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Our Living Community - 19 November 2025

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This episode is all about technology and how the Volunteer Wildfire Services’ firefighters use simple devices to fight fires and communicate important information to help manage and direct not only a current fire but also future fires. Lee Kleinhans and Otto van der Walt are still sitting by a stream in Newlands Forest and you might even be able to hear a small little frog in the background.
19 Nov 2025 English South Africa Science · Nature

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