Prevention Best Way to Tackle Fire
A safety expert, Lasisi Adedoyin has said the best way to tackle fire is to prevent it.
Adedoyin, who trains people on fire, environment and safety, stated this at the launch of a book he co-authored with his wife, who’s also a fire officer with Lagos State Government.
He said, “The need for this book is because most of us see the incident that occurred in Lagos fire is becoming prevalent.”
He said they decided to author the book “is to put safety tips, fire prevention tips that each and every one of us can use in our homes in our offices to prevent fire. The building code is one of the things that is very, very common in Nigeria. But are people building using fire’s device in designing of the building?
“If you look at most of the estates, the gates of most of the states are small, even for fire ambulance to even access them is very, very difficult. People don’t know the laws.
“In this book, we have a chapter that is dedicated to regulatory law that guides fire in Nigeria. People don’t pathway for ambulance in this part of the world And that’s against the law. How do you expect a fire handler to get to the fire scene if people don’t make waypoints? We need to improve our turnaround for fire. And all these information how do we help for services there are hydrants around in the States, the hydrants around, but people build on the hydrants You see people building on canal also there are a lot of hydrants available in the state people vandalize them and if you vandalize they get to the fire scene, you have to move miles away before you can recharge the water. But the hydrants that are available if they are not vandalized, they can quickly recharge the ambulance and things gets easily. so it is very, very important for us to have those tips in place. And that’s why we decided to author this book so that this part of the world we don’t want a situation whereby codes that are foreign, You know most of the people when they want to design buildding they use foreign code, UK code and US Code however we have the national building code. We also have the fire code that is domesticated in Nigeria. Most practitioners in this field don’t know anything about it. And that’s the reason why we decided to bring this to Limelight or for everybody to relate. Each and every one of us always talk about the regulator. We talk about the practitioners. But the people, we have to protect ourselves, we need to guide ourselves. You are designing you give an architect, a building for you to design, the architect that design the building that did not put all those fire devices in place. Who is to blame? you are the one that will be at loss.