BFS Making Public Aware

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The Barbados Fire Service marked its 54th anniversary yesterday aiming to forge greater links with communities.

Acting Chief Fire Officer Randolph Cox said it was important that fire officers continued to make the public aware of fire prevention techniques.

"We are going all out in the communities to ensure that people are sensitised and do the right things to prevent fires in the home, especially going into the busy Christmas season.

"We want people to be safe, and the only way is to make them knowledgeable through our public education programmes," Cox said.

The BFS celebrates its anniversary with a week under the theme Building And Maintaining Relationships Within Our Community.

Cox was speaking after the thanksgiving service held at the Mount of Praise Wesleyan Holiness Church where officers of the BFS were joined by the Barbados Prison Service Band and the Royal Barbados Police Force.

Acting Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said that the new state-of-the-art station at the Grantley Adams International Airport would soon be opened.

"We have to look at the fire station in St James to either refurbish or replace it, but having regard to its location, we will ultimately have to think about replacing it.

"The fire station at St John has not had any work done on it of a substantial nature recently and we'll also look at that. Six Roads is in the serious planning stage, although it has been in gestation for a very long time. But we are now at the point where we are about to make a very serious take-off," Stuart added. (PCA)

Source: www.nationnews.com

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