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Haag Bosch’s fire… Fire Chief refutes claims of Fire Service negligence

Dec 29, 2015 News

The Guyana Fire Service has been working without fail to put out the Haag Bosch landfill fire that started blazing two Sundays ago, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said.
Gentle said that his team has been working assiduously to contain the fire, which is torching hectares of garbage but it would take some time to put it out. “This is not a house fire. It is a landfill fire and landfill fires burn for days and sometimes weeks,” he stated.
On Sunday, Site Manager Lloyd Stanton, stated that it was the lackadaisical attitude of the fire fighters that is causing the fire to continue blazing. He stated that they had managed to put out half of the surface fire last week but ended up right back at square one after fire fighters began turning up whenever they felt like.
“If we were constantly at it this fire would have been out, but the firemen are coming on the site whenever they feel like…Look today (Sunday) they didn’t show up,” he said, adding that areas where they had managed to put out were on fire again.
Gentle, however, rejected Stanton’s claims, saying that his team was working every day to keep the fire under control. He added that the only way the fire will be subdued is if they work together— which is currently not the case.
He said that he had asked that Haag Bosch provide its own pumps and hoses to help tackle the fire, but no such equipment has materialized.
“So far we have damaged three of our pumps and 30 of our hoses,” he said.  It was putting pressure on the fire service. “They need to get their equipment and work along with us…instead of making us look like the bad ones,” he stated.
He noted that in 2013, the fire service made recommendations for the site to have fire pumps and hoses in cases of an emergency but the proposal was not heeded.
He added that it was his opinion that the fire may have started long before the employee spotted the smoke emitting from a section of the garbage dump.
The blaze started after an internal combustion occurred on the site last Sunday. The fire, which is burning through hectares of garbage, is very dangerous and has caused operations to cease on the location. Garbage trucks were being re-directed to the Lusignan dumpsite on the East Coast of Demerara until yesterday, when orders were made for garbage to be dumped at Le Repentir cemetery.

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