In the center of Bogota and Cali and Medellin, the problem is with the hydrants.
About 40 percent of the country does not even have a machine that will end with a possible fire.
60 percent of all Colombian municipalities have some type machine, but only 30 percent could respond efficiently to a conflagration.
"The national coverage of fire is 60 percent at the tactical and operational and we'd be talking in sentences that percentage to between 20 and 30 percent in the country has the capacity to support tactical operations hydraulic fire" said captain Andrew Germain Miranda Montenegro, national coordinator of Fire.
As reported in big cities like Cali, Medellin and in the center of Bogota, there are problems of poor location of hydrants, which would hinder an emergency response capabilities of firefighters.
"There are cities where there are sufficient hydrants equidistances but do not have to respond with an appropriate tactic, so firefighters have readjusted that response acquiring higher-capacity tankers," he said.
He said the responsibility of that happening is the municipal and district authorities, who must "ensure, through their aqueducts, the water system that allows the work of firefighters.
The problem is that cities have grown and taken into account the old and new networks have no synergy. "
According to the fire chief said, the responsibility of the municipalities without fire department is one of the entities that are not set in the tragedy could happen in small towns unresponsive.
About 40 percent of the country does not even have a machine that will end with a possible fire.
60 percent of all Colombian municipalities have some type machine, but only 30 percent could respond efficiently to a conflagration.
"The national coverage of fire is 60 percent at the tactical and operational and we'd be talking in sentences that percentage to between 20 and 30 percent in the country has the capacity to support tactical operations hydraulic fire" said captain Andrew Germain Miranda Montenegro, national coordinator of Fire.
As reported in big cities like Cali, Medellin and in the center of Bogota, there are problems of poor location of hydrants, which would hinder an emergency response capabilities of firefighters.
"There are cities where there are sufficient hydrants equidistances but do not have to respond with an appropriate tactic, so firefighters have readjusted that response acquiring higher-capacity tankers," he said.
He said the responsibility of that happening is the municipal and district authorities, who must "ensure, through their aqueducts, the water system that allows the work of firefighters.
The problem is that cities have grown and taken into account the old and new networks have no synergy. "
According to the fire chief said, the responsibility of the municipalities without fire department is one of the entities that are not set in the tragedy could happen in small towns unresponsive.
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