Fire and Safety Professional, Debbie Windele, has advised Nigerians to always turn off their change over when they are not at home to prevent electrical surge that could cause fire disasters.
For those that leave their refrigerators or freezers on and travel, she suggested that they should stock their refrigerators or freezers with ice blocks which would take some days before it melts.
Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Mrs Windele stressed the need for everyone to avoid situations that could lead to fire outbreak, emphasising that it was easier to avoid fire outbreak than to contain it.
“When there is a fire disaster in your home you cannot savage anything, you are prone to losing all your property,” she added.
She is of the opinion that since a good policy was not yet in place to take care of people’s belongings destroyed by fire, people should take responsibility for their actions.
For devices used to check the amount of power coming into the electrical appliances, she stated that sometimes the products sold in Nigeria’s market are “substandard” and could be the major cause of fire disasters in homes, offices or market places.
In the recent Ojuelegba incident of a tanker getting burnt on the road, she called on the Lagos State Government to set policies in place that would check road worthiness of tankers and trailers plying the roads to prevent multiple accidents or fire disasters.
Mrs Windele advised that every home, offices, market place should have a smoke detector which would raise an alarm before fire starts.
