Saying it has been a standing request in the last 35 years, Mayor Domingo Mirrar of Lakewood in Zamboanga asked Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos that his town be allocated a firetruck. | alipalajulieINQ /PDI
“Now with this El Nino, we fear of forest fire, slash and burn farming that can affect our barangays, so I made this personal and open appeal to the Secretary, so he will know the real situation in our town,” Mirrar said.
He told the Inquirer that he first made this request in 1988, upon winning as mayor for the first time. Now, Mirrar is in his 8th term as the town’s chief executive. “We never stopped appealing to DILG [Department of the Interior and Local Governmen] and to the province, but nothing happened,” Mirrar said, noting that if there would be a fire in the town, they have to wait for firefighters from Pagadian City, some 50 kilometers away.
If we have fire trucks in the town, he explained, “we can respond immediately and not wait more than an hour for a response from nearby towns, by that time, everything may already be razed down.”“There has to be a property where to build the fire station, and we will ensure that this will be a priority infrastructure in Lakewood,” Abalos vowed.RELATED STORIES
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