The Enugu State Fire Service embarked on fire safety consciousness sensitisation in over 5,000 residential premises within the 17 council areas of the state within a year.
The Enugu State Chief Fire Officer, Engr. Okwudiri Ohaa, told newsmen on Saturday that the massive Compound-to-Compound Fire Safety Sensitisation was in line with Governor Peter Mbah’s Proactive Fire Safety Directive.
Ohaa said that the service’s Fire Prevention Unit had been on a proactive fire safety consciousness sensitisation daily. He said that through the daily sensitisation, the service had been able to get the fire safety message down to the grassroots in their indigenous languages.
Ohaa noted that the fire safety sensitisation included the need for residents to be fire safety conscious, have functional fire extinguishers, how to use and refill them, and emergency fire numbers of fire stations in their localities. He said that the service within the year had carried out fire safety training to numerous staff of government ministries, departments, agencies, as well as markets, private organisations, schools, hospitals, and hotels.
According to him, “through His Excellency, Gov. Peter Mbah’s directive and support, all public or government buildings, including the new International Conference Centre (ICC) Enugu, have functional fire extinguishers and staff trained on how to use them.
“Installation of firefighting tools (fire extinguishers, hose, fire sensors, etc) in public buildings such as the Science, Technical, Vocational Management Board Office, the Enugu Customary Court Appeal Office, ICC Enugu, and Local Government Service Commission Office, etc.
“The service has regularly refilled, serviced, and certified firefighting tools in the Government House, government buildings, and government public facilities, and surrounding areas. All these were made possible through Gov. Mbah’s proactive support,” he said.
