Fire extinguishers installed at every school

Fire extinguishers have been installed in every school in the country before the new academic year begins.

Education Ministry and the welfare company of the MNDF ran the project installing fire extinguishers in 215 schools. While the MNDF Fire and Rescue installed the extinguishers, the MNDF Welfare company would be maintaining them for five years.

At the end of the MVR 3.5 million project, the staff at the schools have been trained to use the equipment according to the Education Ministry. And the staff has been trained on the school emergency plans in the past two years.

The Ministry said that schools would have fully equipped fire extinguishers and qualified staff by the beginning of the academic year 2017.

Academic year 2017 is set to begin on 8 January.