Fire safety lessons for Enchey School seniors

GANGTOK, 21 March: Sikkim Fire and Emergency Service organized a fire safety awareness programme for the Class XII students of Health Care Science at Enchey Senior Secondary School here at Fire Station premises today. Twenty-one students, accompanied by two teachers, attended the awareness session.
The students were briefed on various topics related to safety, fire fighting and even disaster mitigation. A demonstration of firefighting equipment was also presented for the students.
The programme, it is informed, was arranged on the request of the Enchey SSS principal.
Deputy Chief Fire officer, Prakash Rai, while interacting with the students, urged them to remember what they learned today and help keep their surroundings safe from fires. He also suggested that they prepare their projects in a way that they could also serve as awareness material to share with people beyond the classroom.
Other resource persons at hand to guide the students were Fire Station Officer Phuchung Lepcha, Assistant Fire Station Officer Samsher Subba and Leading Fireman Madhusudan Adhikari.

Fire-fighting awareness drive in Sichey

GANGTOK, 04 May: An awareness programme on fire fighting and disaster management was organized by United Sichey Social Organization with the support of State Disaster Management Department and Fire and Emergency Service at Sichey Secondary School ground on 30 April for the students and the local public.
The programme sought to generate awareness on natural calamities and impart basic fire fighting skills, and provide guidelines to prepare and tackle such situations. The programme, also supported by live demonstrations was actively participated by the students and the public as well, informs a press release.

Fire fighting skills reached to Loyola College and Namchi SSS

NAMCHI: The Loyola College of Education hosted a special demonstration of fire-fighting measures conducted by personnel from the Fire & Emergency Services, Namchi, on Saturday. The fire-fighters were accorded a warm welcome at the college and they then proceeded to brief the students and staff on how to handle fire emergency situations.
As per a press communiqué received from Binita Sharma of Loyola College, the main intention behind this demonstration was to acquaint the students on the operation of fire extinguishers.  During the demonstration, the fire-fighters highlighted the various kinds of fire emergencies which have become a matter of concern in the hills. The demonstration was done using two types of fire extinguishers.