Firefighting exercise held at Moulvibazar

It was 11 o'clock. A coil of smoke was suddenly seen coming out from the second floor of MB Cloth Store on Moulvibazar's Central Road. The employee of the shop called the fire service and informed that MB had caught fire.

Two units of Moulvibazar Fire Service and Civil Defense arrived within one and a half minutes after receiving the news. Fire fighting and rescue operations started. The Deputy Commissioner, Municipal Mayor, Additional Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioners and policemen rushed to the news.

Firefighters rescued many injured people from inside. The injured were given first aid and sent to the hospital by ambulance. The fire was brought under control in about half an hour.

However, the rescue operation was hampered by the crowd of enthusiastic people and the competition of mobile users taking live, video and pictures.

The whole thing described above was a rehearsal. How the fire service extinguishes and prevents fires in multi-storey shopping complexes; Today, Saturday (29 April) in Moulvibazar, the fire service and civil defense conducted its own drill.

The exercise was held at MB Cloth Store on Central Road in the city at noon. At this time common people, traders and employees in charge of shops are given an idea about this.

Deputy Commissioner witnessed the exercise. Urmi Binte Salam, Mayor Fazlur Rahman. Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Prabhanshu Som Mahan, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) Abdul Haque, Municipal Councilor Faisal Ahmad, MB Director Anwar Iqbal and Nurul Islam Kamran were present.

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Moulvibazar Fire Service and Civil Defense Deputy Assistant Director Niaz Ahmed said, this is a part of regular exercise. Its objective is to make people aware and give basic idea about fire fighting. So that they can efficiently deal with the situation in case of fire. That's why this arrangement.

Director of MB Nurul Islam Kamran said, the fire service fighters have already given a basic idea and training to our employees. How to put out a fire, how to cooperate with the fire service. We got a lot of ideas through this exercise.

Deputy Commissioner Dr. Urmi Binte Salam said, in many cases our awareness can save us from fire. If we take measures in advance to prevent the occurrence of fire, many dangers will be saved.

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