Disaster Volunteer groups are to be established in the communities to mobilise efforts at containing rampant fire outbreaks.
Members of the proposed Disaster Volunteer groups would undergo training to ensure that they execute the task of preventing fires diligently at the community level.
Nana Adu Gyami, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Co-ordinator of the Juaben Municipal Assembly, who announced this at a crisis meeting, said his outfit would collaborate with the security agencies to embark on intensive monitoring of human activities to prevent fire outbreaks in the municipality.
The emergency meeting was occasioned by the recent fire outbreaks in Accra and Kumasi, which the Coordinator saw as clarion call to all NADMO staff and officials to be on the lookout and intensify public education on the dangers of fire and the need to prevent their occurrence.
According to him, all the necessary mechanisms had been put in place to avoid occurrence of any fire outbreaks.
Nana Adu Gyami revealed that volunteer field officers have been deployed to protect the forests, farming lands and other monumental projects, and assured the people in the municipality that there is no cause for alarm.
The Municipal NADMO Coordinator admonished the Zonal Officers to be vigilant and more concerned in the resolve to fight the rampant fire outbreaks and avert them as much as possible.
Nana Adu Gyami also cautioned the residents to be wary of activities that have the tendency of igniting fires.
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