{"id":72586,"date":"2024-01-31T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=72586"},"modified":"2024-01-31T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:15:10","slug":"govt-issues-guidelines-to-curb-school-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/govt-issues-guidelines-to-curb-school-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt issues guidelines to curb school fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY BUSEIN SAMILU<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government has is<\/span>sued fire safety guidelines that it said <\/span>schools should implement to prevent <\/span>and handle fire outbreaks. <\/span>Before they reopen for First Term, <\/span>schools according to the latest guide<\/span>lines issued by the National Building <\/span>Review Board (NBRB) should, among <\/span>others, ensure they all have function<\/span>ing fire extinguishers, install fire and <\/span>smoke detectors, fire horse reels, avail <\/span>emergency exits well labelled, im<\/span>proved roofing, fire hydrants, among <\/span>others.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Executive Secretary of the <\/span>NBRB, Ms Flavia G. Bwire, told journal<\/span>ists on Monday that many schools are <\/span>prone to fires because they have not <\/span>put in place adequate fire-fighting <\/span>measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe NBRB has since 2020 inves<\/span>tigated different fires in schools and <\/span>found out that the incidents that have <\/span>resulted in deaths in schools are com<\/span>mon, [whereby] all dormitories were <\/span>crowded, presence of combustible <\/span>materials, no automatic fire detector <\/span>or alarm system, and some schools <\/span>lacked firefighting equipment,\u201d she <\/span>said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms Bwire added: \u201cThere was incon<\/span>siderate use of burglar proofing with <\/span>regard to life safety, lack of knowl- <\/span>edge on fire safety and emergency re<\/span>sponse, inaccessible dormitories and <\/span>lack of emergency exits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many schools have in the last five <\/span>years experienced fire outbreaks lead<\/span>ing to deaths, with the recent one be<\/span>ing Kasana Junior School in Masaka <\/span>City, which claimed the lives of seven <\/span>pupils and injured five others on Oc<\/span>tober 29, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY BUSEIN SAMILU The government has issued fire safety guidelines that it said schools should implement to prevent and handle fire outbreaks. Before they reopen for First Term, schools according to the latest guidelines issued by the National Building Review Board (NBRB) should, among others, ensure they all have functioning fire extinguishers, install fire and smoke detectors, fire horse reels, avail emergency exits well labelled, improved roofing, fire hydrants, among others. The Executive Secretary of the NBRB, Ms Flavia G. Bwire, told journalists on Monday that many schools are prone to fires because they have not put in place adequate fire-fighting measures. \u201cThe NBRB has since 2020 investigated different fires in schools and found out that the incidents that have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2238],"class_list":["post-72586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-school-fires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}