Federal Fire Service to audit tank farms
- To establish fire stations across 109 senatorial districts
The Federal Fire Service has announced that it has set up a technical group to assess oil tank farms safety and management in order to mitigating disasters arising from petroleum tank farm explosions in the southern part of the country.
The Federal Government also said it has concluded plans to establish fire stations across the nation’s 109 senatorial districts as part of renewed efforts to reduce fire incidents in the country.
The Controller-General, Federal Fire Service, Liman Alhaji Ibrahim, who disclosed these at a media parley in Abuja, adding that the service will also purchase 89 fire fighting trucks made up of 44 water tenders, 15 ambulances, 15 water tankers and 15 rapid intervention vehicles.
Ibrahim said “We discovered that it is necessary to extend our operations from the state headquarters to the senatorial districts so that we can be closer to the people because the closer we are, the better our response time.
“The moment we start taking delivery of these vehicles, we will now identify some senatorial districts that are more prone to disasters and then we deploy our men and trucks. But we will pick them state by state. We must touch every state.
“The first number of trucks is 44 and we have 36 states. So, we will identify one from each of the states and send the vehicle there. When the next batch of trucks comes, we will continue with that until we are able to cover the 109 senatorial districts in the country.”
