{"id":2591,"date":"2019-10-31T19:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2019-10-31T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:53:56","slug":"chitipa-filling-station-fuel-attendants-attain-fire-fighting-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/chitipa-filling-station-fuel-attendants-attain-fire-fighting-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitipa Filling Station Fuel Attendants Attain Fire Fighting Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\nStephano Nkhata <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Diocese of Karonga has trained fuel attendants at\nher Chitipa Filling Station on how to use handheld fire extinguishers to stop\nfire in case it occurs at the site. This day long training took place at the\nnewly upgraded filling station in Chitipa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his explanation, the facilitator of the training Mr\nJoseph Malele, an employee of the Airport Development Limited (ADL) in Malawi\nsaid, fire usually starts with a spark – a wisp smoke that spreads with dramatic\nspeed sending your office, factory, garage, school, hospital, warehouse, house and\neven your life up in smoke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery day at home at work, fire kills and injures\nthousands of people, causing pain and suffering; destroys property causing\nfinancial loss leading to hardship and distress for many people,\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFire drives organizations and companies out of\nbusiness, putting many out of work and yet most fires can be prevented,\u201d said\nMalele <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diocesan filling station attendants have been trained\non how to quickly put out fires in the event of such occurrence. Being at the\nretail filling station site, lives and property are at risk of catching fire\none day. The training has provided insight into many important areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the notable areas covered were; classification\nof fires, fire extinguishers colour code, combustion, principles of fire\nextinction, operation of fire extinguisher, fire protection and prevention and how\ndifferent firefighting media extinguish fires. This included their advantages,\ndisadvantages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to his explanation, it was clear that fire is caused by either of the following: carelessness, ignorance and accident. The team is now geared to work towards the prevention of fires at the site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictures below show fuel attendants at the site during demonstrations which were conducted about 200 metres from the filling station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joseph Malele setting an old tyre on fire for demonstration on the day

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Fuel attendant practicing the use of fire extinguisher<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Fire put out using handheld fire extinguisher during demonstrations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Stephano Nkhata The Diocese of Karonga has trained fuel attendants at her Chitipa Filling Station on how to use handheld fire extinguishers to stop fire in case it occurs at the site. This day long training took place at the newly upgraded filling station in Chitipa. In his explanation, the facilitator of the training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resource-mobilisation-desk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}