Fire brigade making sure Apec meeting venues safe

The Fire Brigade mobile team is part of the Joint Security Task Force (JSTF) being deployed to each Apec senior officials’ meeting venue in Port Moresby.
Inspector Stanley Danny, who is in charge of the Stanley Hotel venue, said the mobile team had been carrying out routine inspections on each venue since the meetings started last week.
He said they were deployed to ensure that the venues and meetings were safe and secure for the delegates.
The mobile fire-fighting team comprises a superintendent, an inspector and four to five fire fighters who would spend an hour at a venue.
“We do a familiarisation visits to the venues and identify hazards and other related emergencies,”Danny said.
“We also carry out fire inspections within all buildings and ensure that fire safety requirements in the buildings were up to standards.
“For the last three weeks we have been carrying out this whole exercise where the operations have been very smooth.”
Danny said their only problemwere the lack of light vehicles so they didn’t have to take the fire truck to all the venues.
“We should be using light vehicles so that the fire trucks are stationed in each venue.
“As part of the JSTF team, our operations will cover other meetings leading to the leaders’ summit in November.
“Since this is the first operation and we will evaluate and advise our superiors to take it up with the Apec authority to make changes if required.
Danny said inspectors from all the venues had joined the mobile team because the meeting venues had been reduced to just Stanley Hotel.
“When the operations started, we had four inspectors in all the venues but the first lot of meetings ended on Sunday so now we are only focused on Stanley Hotel,” Danny said.