The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) of the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) in collaboration with the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has begun outreach programme to sensitise car garages on fire safety and fire fighting to prevent fire outbreaks.

The agenda is geared towards the protection of lives and properties in the Municipality. The sensitisation which was held at the Patsims Motors Ltd on Wednesday October 18, 2023, attracted participants from other garages.

The Municipal NADMO Director, Madam Deborah Akua Ofori said the programme was a Municipal wide call to encourage car garage owners and the public to practise fire safety in the Municipality.

The car garages were identified as one of the institutions that has failed to comply with the fire safety measures, and has resulted in a number of fire outbreaks recorded in the Municipality.

The Resource Person from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), urged the participants to employ the services of qualified electrical engineers for the wiring of their homes and garages, as well as avoid the use of fake gadgets and replace electrical wires after two decades of usage.

The Head of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) team Madam Gifty Okai advised the participants to acquire quality fire extinguishers like dry chemical and Co2 (Carbone dioxide) for use at both home and the garages. She said NADMO in collaboration with the GNFS would ensure compliance with the safety precautions in all garages. She said they would visit the facilities to carry out inspection of firefighting apparatus periodically.

The officers from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) took participant through firefighting techniques and pleaded  for more education at the market places and the lorry stations.