Fire trucks tasked as water sprinklers
TO COOL BANGUS FEST
THE heat will be on, literally, during the 2014 Bangus Festival this month, but event participants and spectators need not worry about cooling down.
Fire trucks and sprinklers will be set up in some portions of A.B. Fernandez Avenue and Perez Boulevard to ease the expected searing heat during the “Gilon-Gilon” street dance competition on April 22 and the “Festivals of the North” on April 27, two of the highlights of the annual Bangus Festival.
Dr. Edwin Aguirre, head of the secretariat of the Bangus Festival, said the mayor put forward the suggestion in anticipation of the hot temperature.
The City Fire Station headed by Chief Inspector Ferdinand Formacion has been directed to organize and plan the sprinkling.
Aquirre clarified that the water will not be sprayed directly on the street dancers nor to the crowd but into the air in surrounding areas where the participants will be passing by.
The Bangus Festival Executive Committee is expecting up to 500,000 spectators to pack the streets during the street performances.
While a bigger crowd is expected to gather along the three-kilometer stretch of the Jose R. de Venecia Sr. Expressway Extension for the Bangusan Street Party on April 30, there will be no sprinkling since the event is set from 4:30 p.m. onwards. —LVM
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