Perak Fire and Rescue director Sayani Saidon (left) inspecting a guard-of-honour at the monthly meeting in its headquarters on Wednesday (June 21). - Photo: Bernama
IPOH: The Perak branch of the Fire and Rescue Department helped save property worth more than RM143mil from fires between January and June this year, says Sayani Saidon.
The Perak Fire and Rescue director said this was a 12% decrease compared to last year where a total of RM163.4mil worth of property was successfully saved over the same period in 2022.
"The total amount of lost property was recorded at more than RM33mil in comparison to RM17.6mil for the same period last year.
"This rise is due to the increase in fires during the dry season," she said in her speech at the June monthly assembly at the Perak Fire and Rescue headquarters here Wednesday (June 21).
She added that the Perak Fire and Rescue Department recorded a 44% decrease in emergency calls at 5,191 from January to this month compared to 9,262 cases in the same period last year covering fire, rescue and humanitarian service cases.
According to Sayani, a comparison of the number of fire cases in 2022 and 2023 for the period from January to June also showed a decrease in cases by 244 cases which is 5,191 compared to 5,435 cases for the same period.
However, she also said there was an increase of 521 rescue cases with 3,448 cases compared to 2,927 cases for the same period last year.
She added that the renewal of the strategy to speed up "time responders" to emergency locations and the implementation of continuous pre-planning was one of the factors that helped record success with the cooperation of fire safety organisations and the good governance of the volunteer fire brigade. - Bernama
