Islamabad: Feb 25, 2021 (TNS): On the instructions of Syeda Shafaq Hashmi, Administrator, Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI), the Emergency & Disaster Management Directorate (E&DM) Fire & Rescue teams conducted a real-time mock-drill at the CENTAURUS MALL earlier today. The Director Emergency & Disaster Management and the City Chief Fire Officer (CCFO), District Islamabad, led the drill. The drill had four major components (1) artificial smoke & fumes spread (2) fire alarm\/ emergency in the building (3) emergency evacuation drill and (4) recsue of the trapped victims inside the premises, using special URBAN SEARCH & RESCUE team, supported with the canine unit(s) and paramedics. The special snorkel measuring 29 meters as well as 68 meters procured from FINLAND was in the Mock-Exercise, together with the largest fire-fleet of District Islamabad. The Fire-Fighters enterted all the sophisticated parts and corners of CENTAURUS MALL, and also tested the installed equipments, emeregency exits and their effectiveness , reservations which had been recorded to General Manager of the Mall. The Mall-Management was also advised to submit their safety plans , maintainance agreements and other details to review the state of preparedness in light of Pakistan Building Codes, Fire Safety Provision 2016, being regulated under Islamabad Fire Prevention & Life Safety Regulations 2010. The Emergency & Disaster Management (E&DM) Directorate urged such activities across the year in all High-rise Buildings, preferably in Blue-Area in first phase as well as in all VVIP buildings at constitution avenue, to keep them all prepared 24\/7,\u00a0 to respond to any natural or man-made calamity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad: Feb 25, 2021 (TNS): On the instructions of Syeda Shafaq Hashmi, Administrator, Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI), the Emergency & Disaster Management Directorate (E&DM) Fire & Rescue teams conducted a real-time mock-drill at the CENTAURUS MALL earlier today. The Director Emergency & Disaster Management and the City Chief Fire Officer (CCFO), District Islamabad, led the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96255,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96253\/revisions\/96255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}