Fire Disaster in Bireuen Increases.
The Fire Disaster in Bireuen District, Aceh Province - Indonesia from January to date has increased, 74 cases of fire in Bireuen occurred in 17 sub-districts. From these cases, 4 of them died and dozens of other people were injured when the fire occurred in Bireuen.
The fire disaster in Bireuen includes several cases such as forest or land fires, house or shop fires and fires for businesses and so on. A fire that claimed a death toll occurred in Geulanggang Gampong Village, Kota Juang District, in that incident 4 shop units were burned and three people died while one person died during a fire in Matang Geulumpang II Village, Peusangan District which burned 4 houses .
Whereas for cases of forest or land fires occurring in several sub-districts in Bireuen, sub-districts that are prone to forest or land fires include Peusangan, Jeunieb, Peudada, Peusangan Selatan, Peusangan Siblah Krueng, Juli and Pandrah districts. Given the high number of fires in Bireuen, related parties have added a new fleet this year to deal with the fire disaster, but the existing fleet is considered inadequate.
Currently, Bireuen already has 2 Fire Brigade Service Posts in the areas of Kuta Blang and Simpang Mamplam Subdistricts and 1 Main Post in Bireuen City, however this is considered insufficient to cover 17 existing Districts. The government of Bireuen is expected to immediately build several auxiliary posts in other sub-districts to cope with the fires that have occurred.
Head of the Bireuen Regency Regional Disaster Management Agency Teguh Mandiri Putra in the online media pantaunews published on October 15, 2020, said that the high number of fire cases that occurred was due to a short circuit, therefore the public was always vigilant in using various electrical equipment. When the fire occurred, his party had tried their best to get to the location of the incident, but when the movement of the fire fleet car to the location of the fire, most of the passersby both on Jalan Medan-Banda Aceh and on sub-district roads made it difficult for the fire fleet cars to get to the location, this problem also a very fatal obstacle for the firefighters.
Given the high number of fire cases in 2020, BPBD Bireuen Regency must add adequate fire fleet cars and additional posts, in order to speed up and make it easier to move to the location of the fire disaster that occurred in the City of Matang Glumpang II, Peusangan, July or in the District. Peulimbang, Bireuen. In addition, there is also a need for additional repair funds for the entire fleet of fire engines in Bireuen, including the availability of oil funds while on standby at the fire station so that traffic jams do not occur when carrying out movements to help extinguish fires that can occur suddenly.
Teguh Mandiri Putra also appealed to all the people of Bireuen Regency to always be careful, thorough, vigilant when leaving the house. We recommend that you first turn off any electrical appliances that you normally use, also check the stove in the kitchen and other things that are considered to cause a fire accident.
