City hall ‘fire evacuation’ done in 15 minutes

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ILOILO City – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in this city conducted a fire drill at city hall on Aug. 8.
“All employees participated and cooperated in going out of city hall properly and orderly,” said Senior Fire Officer Aquilino Sampiano, chief of operations of BFP-Iloilo City.
During the fire drill, the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) closed one minor fire exit on the fifth floor to know the bulk of people passing in other exit areas.
“The scenario was that the fire started on the third floor. We closed the exit area on fifth floor because the smoke from third floor went up from there and if people from upper floors pass through that area, they will be suffocated,” said Darwin Joemel Papa, CDRRMO emergency response head.
Papa cited the immediate response of employees to go out of city hall building passing other exits.
“Total evacuation time was 15 minutes and this is normal with the bulk of city hall employees and clients inside the building when the fire started. We were expecting to finish the evacuation by 20 minutes but we finished it earlier,” said Papa.
CDRRMO will further conduct a planning on how to look for more ways to evacuate city hall employees quickly.
“We only closed one minor exit area during the fire drill, but what if one major exit area will be blocked? That is why we need more planning for this,” Papa added. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
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