Community Group Firefighters Association

CGFA is a community-based firefighters’ group, that is driven to support our local community when they need the urgent assistance of trained and qualified firefighters, as they face one of life’s most stressful and strenuous situations. With knowledge about the industry and a deep routed passion for serving and saving lives, CGFA South Africa was founded in 2019.


Hard-pressed by legislative requirements that govern the way in which services, such as ours, are offered, CGFA was established on a not-for-profit basis and all members are registered as reservists with the City of Johannesburg Fire Department.


This places CGFA in a unique position, whereby the services that we offer are known to the city and are completely free-of-charge to all citizens.

CGFA is here to empower its volunteers to serve and save lives, to protect property through fire rescue, fire prevention and firefighting. We are active within the communities that we operate, ensuring that we live our values through our actions daily. We are committed to delivering on our mission to serve and save lives. 

Community Group Firefighters Association is dedicated to assisting the City of Johannesburg Fire Department, SAPS as well as JMPD when we are called upon. We provide life-saving emergency services to the community and render Firefighting and Rescue support services to all existing Emergency services.

Our services are provided at no cost and are not limited in any way by factors such as financial status and or discriminative towards any person or living creature.

FIRE RESCUE are often just words used to describe situations that are dangerous & involve fire. To us these words hold our values.

FIRE RESCUE to us means that we are Faithful in our actions to help our community. We act with Integrity and Respect. We do not make assumptions but make Educated and Responsive decision that deliver on our promise to serving our community. We act with Excellence, and Selflessly to ensure that we remain committed to supporting our Community. We are Un-wavering in our actions, ensuring that we deliver results that are Ethical and support our mission to serve and save lives. 

Take a look at what each of these elements means to us & how they guide us on delivering on our commitments. 

We are faithful to our team and to our community. We act in good faith of those we serve.

Integrity underpins how we work, behave, and build relationships. Trust and honest are key ingredients to integrity.

We are respectful to all citizens, in service and in our community. Anyone from all walks of life will receive the same respect. 

We take the time to invest in our knowledge to ensure that we are able to deliver solutions that see results. Ensuring that the knowledge we have is shared for the greater wellbeing of society. 

We are a team of doers. We do what we say we are going to do and ensure that we respond when called upon.

We demonstrate excellence in all our actions. Our community expects it, and we strive to deliver on this promise every day.

We serve our community without expectation of reward or recognition. We do what we do because we love what we do.

We keep the community top of mind. We deliver on our commitment to be there for our community when they need us.

We are un-wavering in our duties and accept our responsibilities while we them with transparency.

We abide by the laws of our city & country. We deliver on our learnings based on International best practise.