Bohol gets new modern

Rosenbauer fire trucks 

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, August 4 (PIA)—Tagbilaran City and Dauis town now each have their own state of the art fire-fighting engines, the country’s top of the class as yet, according to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP). 

BFP information Officer Fire Officer 1 Chase Ray Siao bared during an interview at the recent Association of United Development Information Officers meeting that the new fire engines came from the Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) and forms part of the last administration’s procurement that have allegedly been controversial due to overprice. 

Now to be tagged as Tagbilaran City’s fire engine No 12, the new Rosenbauer fire engine owns a capacity of 4,000 liters of water and fire suppressants that can combat even the hardest to put out chemical fires, according to the BFP. 

Rosenbauer is among the world’s top manufacturers of fire engines and fire-fighting equipment, and with Bohol getting two more, it becomes a great asset that ups the fire suppression capacity of the BFP here, according to Siao. 

These two water engines each have already two very power fire cannons that can fire a stream of water 60 meters horizontally, so firefighters do not need to get close to where the fire is, and het hurt. 

Vertically, while the recent upsurge of medium rise buildings are posing huge challenge to fire fighters, the Rosenbauer’s stream from its water cannons can already breach the 24 meters mark, or approximately the 8ths storey of a building, Siao shared. 

Other than the powerful water cannons which can breach concrete walls, these new fire trucks have rapid intervention hoses for quicker deployment of the hoses and faster fire suppression. 

For older fire engines, the hoses they carry need to be rolled out by a team so it can be attached to the fire engine pumps to supply water. This is different, Siao pointed out. 

From these two rapid deployment hoses, fire fighters can also mix chemical compound fire retardants to quickly get chemical fires under control. 

When in the older fire trucks, its hoses cater to 1 and ½, this new engines can accommodate a 2 1\2 hose which can be split into two 1 ½ for more pressurized water from its pumps. 

And for quicker filling, the new fire trucks have fiberglass lined water tanks to solve the previous issues of corrosion when the fire truck suctions water from sources which have high salinity levels. 

To be an all-around rescue base, the new fire trucks also have provisions for other kinds of emergency rescue. 

In the lockers are power generators, rescue boards, ropes, carabineers and lashings for high altitude rescue and medical emergency equipment, the BFP fire fighter said. 

For safety concerns while the trucks are in transit, the Rosenbauer forward cabins can accommodate 7 fully geared fire-fighting personnel. 

As to the engine power, the new fire equipment uses a 240 horsepower motors that could empty the 4,000 liter tanks in a little over three minutes. 

T that fighting capacity, the Rosenbauer fire engines can be the engine on standby while other water trucks would just have to snap their hoses into the Rosenbauer tanks to replenish the water supply for sustained fire suppression capability. 

As this equipment came, the BFP in Bohol has increased its operational fire stations in the towns to 38 of the 47 towns. 

Two new fire stations were recently operationalized under the help of FCSupt Sheila Andrade the Provincial Fire Marshal. 

These are the firs stations in Guindulman and in Dagohoy town, Siao shared at the AUDIO. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

The new Rosenbauer fire truck now in Tagbilaran City and in Dauis Fire Station increases the BFP fire suppression capability in Bohol. These state of the art fire engines are from the DILG and are coursed through the BFP. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)