04/08/2026
EMS RED ZONES
https://emsredzones.org.za
Every crew knows the feeling. You're responding into an area, and somewhere in the back of your mind: "Wasn't a crew robbed here last month? Didn't someone get hijacked two streets down?"
That knowledge has always lived in radio chatter, WhatsApp groups and hard-earned memory. One service learns the lesson on Tuesday — another relearns it, at a price, on Friday.
So we built one map for all of us.
EMS Red Zones South Africa is a free, national, community-driven map of the areas where emergency crews face danger - stoning, hijacking, spiking, crew robbery - together with the incidents behind them. It's live now, and it belongs to the whole EMS community: public, private, fire and rescue alike.
View the map — red zones graded from "caution" to "no-go / es**rt required", with reported incidents
Contribute in minutes — draw a zone, refine one, or report an incident. No account needed, anonymous welcome, and services that contribute get credited on the map at their request.
Every submission is reviewed by a moderator before it's published — no rumours, no spam.
Built for compliance — the platform directly supports the OHSC's EMS inspection measures on marking incidents on route-planning maps, communicating them to personnel, and sharing them with services in your area. There's a station display mode for your dispatch screen, ready-to-sign SOP templates, and a monthly signed evidence report. See the Compliance page on the site.
To every responder, medic, firefighter and call-taker reading this: your knowledge protects crews you will never meet. Five minutes on the map today could spare a colleague the worst shift of their life.
https://emsredzones.org.za — open it, check your area, and add what you know.
Operated by Medi Edge EMS as a free service to the industry.
Community-driven,
Human-reviewed,
Free forever.
