Providing the camps with safety equipment in order to protect them from fires
More than 50 points have recently been established in the camps of Kili town and the summit of the surrounding mountain, to reduce the exposure of tent dwellers to the dangers of burns due to the large number of people who resort to heating methods that are unusable, despite their dangers, including plastic and nylon utensils, as a result of the high prices of firewood and fuel. caused by the extreme poverty of the people.
The established fire points, according to the director of the service office in the town, Yahya Aflouk, contribute to mitigating the risks and disasters that the displaced are exposed to, indicating that in addition to providing rooms with fire cylinders and clothing for workers, a series of awareness-raising meetings were organized with the people on how to use them.
According to the volunteer in the firefighting team in Al-Dana camps, Abdul Wahab T., the organization’s team built several points in clear and easily accessible places, equipped with protection means, including anti-electric gloves to cut off the current, in case of fire, and a powder-extinguisher for pumping onto the source of fire, with A shovel and scissors for cutting iron in closed doors and windows, a stick for opening doors, a metal container for transporting water, blankets to fire people, with an emergency microphone to alert residents, and finally an evacuation stick 2 meters long, equipped with a hook to pull the stranded.
According to the criteria of the camp’s geographical area, population distribution and camp size, fire points are being built, says our interviewer, one of POINT’s cadres in Atmeh, given that the area is teeming with dozens of camps, and thousands of tents, more than 20 fire points have been built in the assembly, equipped with four foam and powder extinguishers. And two emergency bags, a loudspeaker, 2 shovels, 2 pails, 2 pickaxes and a hose, in each of the Mutawa camp 1, Al-Jazeera, Al-Wafa, Kafr Sijnah, Al-Bayan, Maram, Zamzam 1, Al-Nasr, Al-Ittihad, Sector 1, the northern countryside of Hama, the western countryside of Hama, Al-Hamza, Al-Farouq and Al-Farouq Omar And Abi Al-Fida, Al-Hassoun, Mutawa 2, Al-Zakat, Arabic, Al-Omar and Al-Arabiya 1.
Prevention training courses
Including civil defense teams, local organizations have held, in the past few months, training courses for people on how to deal with fires, to raise the level of awareness and skills, which have not been excluded recently, owners of establishments, factories, restaurants and bakeries. According to the White Helmets team, a course was organized at the beginning of this March. Training, with the aim of enhancing protection and mitigating the effects of burns, in Al-Tah camp in Ma’aret Misrin, and in the old people’s home in the city, to spread awareness.
The SDI team participated in the rehabilitation and training of cadres from the residents of Qah camps, and an event for the Bena Foundation for Development team and the Bonyan team, for the same purpose.
Half of them are camps with more than 130 fires within 3 months
To draw attention to the fires, the North Response Coordinator Team documented, in a statement the day before, more than 130 fires in the liberated north of Syria, half of them in the displacement camps, and according to the source, the team members monitored 64 fires in the camps of the displaced since the beginning of the year, which led to the death of three children And wounding seven others, including a girl with special needs, and material damage to ninety tents that were set on fire.
