By Cha Monforte, Rural Urban News
MARCH 23
The Bureau of Fire Protection in Tagum City has declared that, based on their regular fire hazard inspections, malls in the city have been complying well and good the fire safety standards as spelled out in the country’s fire code.
“Right from their engineering plans which pass for approval in our office to the installation of fire hoses and portable fire extinguishers, they comply,” said Tagum City fire marshall Senior Inspector Edwin Pelaez in a press conference last week in Tagum City.
Provincial fire marshall Supt. Wilberto Rico Neil Kwantiu said that the BFP, an agency under the Dept. of Interior and Local Government, makes semi-annual and spot inspections to malls especially during December, the shopping season, and during March, when high temperature sets in.
March is a fire awareness month and BFP is launching fire information drive to the public.
In a press conference Monday last week, Panabo City fire marshall Senior Inspector Randolph Arbutante, on the other hand, bared that in the city he protects the public market remains to the usual top fire hazard public area, although in this year per BFI inspections they found out that among private areas the annex building of the University of Mindanao- Panabo was declared to be already a “fire hazard”.
“They (UM management) are anyway amenable to our recommendations and they will make renovations,” he said.
“In Tagum City , the public market is also a fire hazard, and with that, we have been requiring stall renters and businessmen to purchase and put firefighting appliances in their business premises,” said Senior Inspector Pelaez. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)
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