The Barbados Fire Service is seeking greater support from the private sector as it works to expand fire safety education in schools across the island.

Fire Officer Shalika Charles made the appeal on Tuesday following the annual Barbados Fire Service Primary School Quiz, held at the Ministry of Education Transformation’s Media and Resource Department at the Elsie Payne Complex, Constitution Road, St Michael.

Charles explained that the initiative was first launched last year as part of the Fire Service’s 70th anniversary celebrations and received such strong feedback that organisers decided to make it an annual event.