Rs2.8m set aside for industrial zone fire safety

In order to make Industrial Safety Unit fully functional to cope proficiently with rising number of industrial fire, Board of Management of Sundar Industrial Estate is spending over Rs2.8 million to install fire hydrants.

As many as 50 hydrants having standardised specifications will be installed.

With the installation of the fire hydrants, the Industrial Safety Unit of one of the biggest industrial zones of the city will be ready to become functional.

SIE had been facing a dire need to develop its capacity to the independently deal with fire cases as the waiting for Rescue 1122 firefighting teams would sometime aggravated the situation.

In addition to it, Rescue 1122 being the only effective fire-fighting agency operational in Lahore had to respond to dealing with every kind of fire in the provincial capital of a population of over Rs120 million; domestic fire cases to commercial minor fire cases like in a shop to industrial fires.

The work on the construction of the Industrial safety unit was started in 2018.

In 2019, SIE had procured fire tendering vehicles. However, these vehicles’ proficiency nose-dived in the absence of fire hydrants.

It took, a lot of time to go for refilling to a fire tender vehicle to a large distance, its fire- fighting capacity was reduced. As it reached back, the fire intensity not only had resumed rather it had increased much further.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 17^th, 2022.