Ilsur Metshin: "Fire safety is our collective responsibility"

(Kazan City KZN.RU, April 30, Zilya Gayfi). Active preparations for a fire-dangerous period began in Kazan. In the event of a threat, 5 points of temporary accommodation with a capacity of 1195 people were developed for residents of housing estates. This was announced today at the Business Monday in the City Hall of Kazan by the head of Civil Protection Office of the Executive Committee Ferdinand Timurhanov.

During the term of a special fire-fighting mode from 5 to 20 May the burning of garbage and grass in the city is prohibited. For timely notification and evacuation at the threat of wildfires notification scheme is developed. According to Ferdinand Timurhanov, special concern cause illegal dumps of garbage and construction waste. Since the beginning of the dry season the possibility of fire here increases many times. According to him, the acrid smoke of burning waste clouds whole streets, it is very difficult to extinguish such a fire, and it is necessary to shed the entire waste with water layer to the ground. F.Timurhanov gave the example of an unauthorized garbage dump in the territory belonging to  individual entrepreneur Livshits. Last year the fire brigade went to this point 15 times. Head of the Civil Protection Department called the city prosecutor's office and environmental to identify the perpetrators and take measures to eliminate the dumping.

Residential areas bordering with forest are traditionally under the scrutiny of firefighters. According to Ferdinand Timurhanov, established fire safety regulations in the distance of 50 meters for single-storey and 100 meters for multi-storey buildings are violated by developers that do not allow creating mineralized strips prescribed by fire safety rules.

As the head of the Civil Protection Department told, residential areas, fire fighting in which is provided on the water towers, are now actively tested in Kazan. Thus, according to results of an inspection, it was found that device for sampling water meets specifications only in the residential area Krasnooktyabrsky. Ferdinand Timurhanov also raised the issue of the construction of piers for the abstraction of water for fire engines at lakes Deep, Small Deep and Lebyazhe.

Ilsur Metshin instructed the Office of Civil Protection to carry out checks in residential areas in order to identify the non-working fire-fighting equipment actively and encouraged the heads of districts and specialists of "Vodokanal" to keep the matter under personal control. "We need to check all the pressure towers and the place of connection to the fire hydrants in the residential areas, where it is necessary react to all comments after checking. In paralle, we need to continue preventive work with the population. Fire safety is our collective responsibility. We cannot deal with the threats only with one fire services. It is important to bring to citizens how to protect themselves and their children and not to harm the nature in a simple and accessible way", - the head of the city stressed.