{"id":47671,"date":"2026-07-03T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/veld-fire-season-along-the-n3-toll-route\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:30:00","slug":"veld-fire-season-along-the-n3-toll-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/veld-fire-season-along-the-n3-toll-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Veld fire season along the N3 Toll Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all Road Incident Management System (RIMS) services and our community partners for their ongoing efforts to help reduce the risk of runaway wildfires and keep local communities and all road users safe.<\/p>\n<p>Please avoid any actions that could start a fire, such as carelessly discarding your cigarette butts or lighting open fires near dry vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>Always be extra cautious when driving through areas affected by fires or smoke:<\/p>\n<p>\tReduce speed immediately<br \/>\n\tSwitch on your head- and hazard lights<br \/>\n\tIf visibility is poor, pull off in a safe place as far as possible away from the road<br \/>\n\tNever proceed through smoke if you cannot see clearly ahead<\/p>\n<p>Please report unattended fires or smoke near the N3 Toll Route to the 24-hour #N3Helpline on 0800 63 43 57 or send a DM to @N3Route on X.<\/p>\n<p>Fire prevention is a shared responsibility&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77858&#038;page=veld-fire-season-along-the-n3-toll-route\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all Road Incident Management System (RIMS) services and our community partners for their ongoing efforts to help reduce the risk of runaway wildfires and keep local communities and all road users safe. Please avoid any actions that could start a fire, such as carelessly discarding your cigarette butts or lighting open fires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Veld%20fire%20season%20along%20the%20N3%20Toll%20Route.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Veld%20fire%20season%20along%20the%20N3%20Toll%20Route.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}