via Breaking: Fire guts Zimra Beitbridge warehouse 27 November 27, 2014
A ZIMRA warehouse at Beitbridge Border Post was on Thursday night gutted by a raging fire which started around 1800hrs destroying goods belonging to travellers who would have failed to pay duty, sources said.
The cause of the fire could not be ascertained.
Witnesses said efforts by Beitbridge Town Council and Noczim fire brigades to put out the fire were fruitless as there were reportedly no fire hydrants around the area.
The border town relies on Gwanda and Musina fire brigade from the South African side in the event of a fire outbreak. Officials feared that substantial losses might be incurred as a result of the fire.
COMMENTS
i hope due to the prevailing situation Zimbabwe should therefore educate more disaster managers in case of all this disasters such as fire outbreak to implement,monitoring and evaluate.i would like to thank the efforts which were made by the government to source the capacities from south Africa to put off the inferno so as to reduce the adverse impacts of such a serious disruption of the functioning of the society which causes widespread property and environmental losses which was now exceeding our ability to cope with disaster using our own resources.
All they know is pocketing revenues…no safety and contingency plan in place….how could such a big warehouse not have a fire plan in place….it’s a pity when comrades who have no clue are put in charge of institutions.