Khaleej Times

Rescue team will reach you in 2 minutes

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DUBAI — The country will soon have a centralise­d centre to respond to fire alarms within seconds. The Ministry of Interiorha­s launched ‘Hasantak’ project, for smart monitoring of such fire emergency situations. The response to fire alerts will be in less than two minutes. Jassem Al Marzouqi, general commander of civil defence at the Ministry of Interior, said that this is the largest integrated system in the region to monitor emergency situations related to fire and public safety through a public-private partnershi­p. The central Alarm Receiving Centre will make sure the alarm is genuine and automatica­lly alert civil defence which will send assistance to the scene.

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