LOCAL Government, Public Work and National Housing minister Daniel Garwe has commended the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for being a firefighter training hub.
He said the establishment of the hub in Bulawayo made sense given the city's industrial significance,
including its atomic health industry.
Addressing fire and emergency service personnel at Famona Fire Station recently, Garwe said the BCC fire brigade was slowly becoming the firefighter training hub in Zimbabwe.
“I do not think we need to remove it from here to Harare. It must remain here to become the hub. I am so pleased to hear from you that all the rural district councils and other small urban local authorities that are here have been trained here,” he said.
Garwe said Bulawayo was Zimbabwe’s industrial capital city hence it should be the hub for training firefighters, adding that council’s relationship with the United Kingdom-based Operation Florian, a Fire Service Humanitarian charity established in 1995, was important.
“And bringing this huge team from the UK to facilitate training for firefighters is testimony to what Bulawayo local authority is doing, no compromise to service delivery,” he said.
“We fully appreciate that. Continue doing that in other areas of service delivery, not only in firefighting but in all other areas of service delivery.
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The Bulawayo Fire Station is training firefighters from 21 local authorities in Zimbabwe.
