By: Willy Punvwet (Lafia),
Twenty three persons were reportedly burnt to death, while properties valued at #413, 632, 000.00 were destroyed, as a result of fire incidences in Nasarawa State, from January this year to September 2021.
The State Acting Director of fire Service, Mrs. Hannatu D. George, disclosed in Lafia yesterday, while briefing media practitioners on the activities of the Department within the past nine months.
According to Mrs. George, four persons were rescued from the inferno within the period under review, while the Department also rendered a total of seven special services.
Mrs. Hannatu George, who is the first female to head the Department reaffirmed the organization’s preparedness to fight all forms of fire outbreak in the state, while appealing to the Nasarawa State Government to sink boreholes in each of the fire service offices.
According to her, “It will go a long way in assisting staff of the Department in fighting fire outbreak effectively”.
The Director, who was full of praises for the state government for providing a standard and well furnished office complex for the organization, further appealed to the state government to include staff of the fire service Department in the lists of organizations, to benefiting from professional allowances, “as it would go a long way in boosting staff morals”.
Mrs. George also disclosed that, the organization is in dare need of man power, as well as, Fire Fighting Vehicles. She took the briefing to call on the state government to come to their assistance in that direction.
She commended staff of the organization for their hard work and dedication to duty and urged them not to rest on their oars.
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