chronicle of our firefighting system

the 2 fire incidents this year shows that how much we still lacking in the our readiness to face the emergency cases, sad to say, we still fall short of the standard which suppose to be, especially in regard of the firefighting.

since 3 years ago, we have started to upgrade our firefighting facilities, i remember those days almost all the bomba riser room at every floor were without padlock, most of the hose reel have gone missing, many valve either missing or not in good condition, as those days we also faced some financial difficulty, so we only manage to install back the padlock in order to secure those part in the riser room.

as later on the saving in the bank account slowly built up, we moved to the next step of installing back all the hose reel, replacing missing valve, as we thought we were ready and switched bomba pump to auto mode, some of the old valve can't stand the pressure & burst, still remember it happened 2 years ago, before chinese new year, the water from the riser room at 20th floor flow into the lift & coz short circuit, so during the chinese new year, only one lift to serve residents at blk k, the other lift was down for almost 1 week!

due to that, we decided to replace all the valve, serviced all the bomba hose & it's attached bearing & also hose reel, & then during testing for bomba pump, only to find out actually the big bomba pipe which laid below the floor in between blk j & blk k, has been leaking too.., which mean there's no way we should switch the pump to auto mode or else the pump will keep running (to maintain the pressure due to leakage), so new headache surface up.

to replace the big pipe......really need a lot of money, which we plan to do it hopefully this year, but as now, as we can't switch to auto, then we have to teach the guard how to ON the pump manually during fire...., we show them where is the pump, how to switch it ON, & we even write it down & stick it in the guard house, it was abt 6 month ago.

this year as we changed the security guard company, a briefing was given to their 1st batch of guards, but then as later on they sent their new & permanent guards, we made a mistake by assuming the old guard will teach the new guard, with referring to the written procedure in the guard house....so when the small fire happen few weeks ago, the guard went to the wrong pump room & couldn't find the switch...., then abt 10 min the supervisor manage to switch ON the pump after he came back from the lunch :(

our thousand apologies over this mistake, so now as we still can't replace the underground conceal bomba pipe, as the pump need to be in manual mode, as we still need to rely on guards for helping to switch it ON during fire, the MC has make it to a point for all the regular guards, the training will be given again, & each time new guard (or replacement guard) report to work, their supervisor will make sure they have equipped with knowledge of how to deal with situation, for this MC will also check with their supervisor whenever we see new faces in the guard house.

still the long term & best solution is to get the big pipe repaired or replaced, we are working on it now (financially), target is September 2012.

thanks.