Bekasi has shortage of fire trucks

BEKASI: The Bekasi City Council has asked the Bekasi mayoralty to buy new fire trucks as it only has five trucks, which is not enough to cover the whole city area.

Nurul Yaqin, a councillor from the National Mandate Party (PAN) said on Wednesday that five fire trucks were not enough for the whole city, which covers a total area of 21,000 hectares.

"The mayoralty should have at least 17 trucks," he was quoted by Antara as saying.

He also said that the Bekasi mayoralty should periodically check the fire hydrants so that the trucks could easily access water during firefighting operations.

According to him, many hydrants in the city were not functioning.

"The trucks can source their water from rivers as there are many in the city, but that is not effective. It will hamper the effectiveness of the firefighting operations," he said.--JP