Fire stations across T&T face growing safety concerns

Sev­er­al fire sta­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go are in need of ur­gent re­pairs, with struc­tur­al de­fi­cien­cies, mould in­fes­ta­tion and oth­er health and safe­ty con­cerns af­fect­ing the Fire Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to ef­fec­tive­ly pro­tect the pub­lic, act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali has said.

Ali said he con­tin­ues to work with the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty to ad­dress the prob­lems, warn­ing that au­thor­i­ties should not wait for an in­ci­dent to oc­cur be­fore tak­ing ac­tion.

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His com­ments come days af­ter the Rio Claro Fire Sta­tion was closed over struc­tur­al is­sues and health and safe­ty con­cerns, fol­low­ing an in­spec­tion by Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) in­spec­tors who flagged 20 vi­o­la­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty on Sun­day.