New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Delhi Fire Service (DFS) plans to upgrade the fire-fighting facilities in the city by procuring high-end devices like two foam fire fighting tenders to combat chemical fires and six vehicles to reach congested areas, an official said Wednesday.
‘We will soon procure two high-capacity foam fire fighting tenders to douse chemical fires where water is ineffective and we will also procure portable spectrograph, a device, which helps in identifying the chemical in the fire. This will help the fire fighters to use the right method for dousing the fire,’ said DFS Director A.K. Sharma speaking at a three-day ‘Safety Convention’.
The conference on safety convention, which started Wednesday, was organised by the Institute of Engineers, Safety and Quality Forum.
Besides this, the DFS is also planning to get six fast response vehicles equipped them with latest state-of-the-art basic fire-fighting equipment, he said.
Apart from this the DFS control system will also be modernised with latest global positioning system (GPS)-based tracking system.
‘The GPS automatic vehicle tracking system will help in improving the response time of fire-fighters by finding the shortest route to the fire spot,’ said Sharma.
