Hot weather: Bomba to monitor over 400 hotspots nationwide

The Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) will focus on more than 400 hotspots across the country following the dry season that is expected to start next month.

Bomba director-general Datuk Nor Hisham Mohamad said the focus would be on peatland areas, illegal waste disposal sites and landfills owned and operated by local authorities.

“The most worrying are peatland fires, especially in Selangor, Pahang, Johor, Sabah and Sarawak, so we will focus on hotspot locations which have been identified,” he said during a press conference a er a ending the annual parade at the Bomba headquarters, yesterday.

Nor Hisham said the dry weather this year could be worse than the previous three years.

In this regard, he called upon the public to alert the department immediately if they had any information about the irresponsible party that started the fire.

“We monitor through the system as well, but the most important and effective detection is the human eyes – to see and provide accurate information on the location and condition of the fire to enable us to act swi ly and be er,” he said.

Meanwhile, in his first message a er leading the department since Jan 9, Nor Hisham said the Bomba was targeting 300 Community Fire Brigades (PBK) and seven new Volunteer Fire Brigades (PBS) to be established this year.

Apart from that, the department would continue to move the digitalisation initiative more aggressively with the implementation of two high-impact projects this year involving the modernisation of the Command, Control Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4iFRDM) control centres, and the ePREMIS integrated system, he added. — Bernama