14 towns have no fire trucks and stations
LINGAYEN–Fourteen towns in the province do not have a fire station nor fire trucks, according to SFO1 Luther Vallejos, officer-in-charge-provincial chief administrator of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP).
These towns are Infanta, Dasol, Mabini, Burgos, Anda, Aguilar, Labrador, Laoac, Bautista, Alcala, Natividad, Sto. Tomas, Urbiztondo and San Jacinto.
Burgos and Natividad, however, have set up their own station and acquired their own truck through local government initiative, and these are not managed by the BFP.
Vallejo said the BFP fleet of 38 serviceable fire trucks across the province is not enough.
Meanwhile, the provincial board passed a resolution last week requesting the office of Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno for six fire trucks, to be distributed to each of the six districts of Pangasinan.
Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza, author of the resolution, said this was an offshoot of Puno’s visit to the Pangasinan last week after learning of a report that the DILG is set to release fire trucks to different areas in the country.#
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