Sascha Wil­son

Even though six new emer­gency ve­hi­cles have been de­ployed across the South­ern Di­vi­sion, fire of­fi­cials are warn­ing that many sta­tions are still op­er­at­ing with age­ing ap­pli­ances that are in­creas­ing­ly un­re­li­able and pose a se­ri­ous risk to of­fi­cers and the pub­lic.

The warn­ing comes from Fire Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (Sec­ond Di­vi­sion) pres­i­dent Keone Guy, who not­ed that since the Gov­ern­ment hand­ed over six emer­gency ve­hi­cles last month — five of which were fire ten­ders and the oth­er an emer­gency res­cue ten­der — they were dis­patched to sev­er­al sta­tions through­out the South­ern Di­vi­sion that were lack­ing equip­ment, in­clud­ing Ma­yaro, Princes Town, Siparia and Point Fortin. He said a ve­hi­cle was al­so as­signed to the San Fer­nan­do head­quar­ters.