On Saturday, February 4, 2023 during the re-nomination program organized by the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) at the ATS, many people, including the Chief Executive Officer of Voice of Liberia FM 104.1, Sekou Sheriff, showered praises in his live commentary for the role played by the Liberia National Fire and Rescue Service (LNFRS).
Sheriff was heard in a loud voice saying, “The Liberia National Fire and Rescue Service is wasting water on the crowd to enable members of the crowd not to faint from the sun rise and heat. Thanks to the fire service, thanks to Col. Alex K. Dickson for his work at the fire department: making sure all is well and his men are on the standby to rescue people who have come to witness the re-nomination of President George Manneh Weah.”
After the program, the Hot Pepper spoke to some of the people who believed that if it was not for the help of the fire service there would have been a serious disaster at ATS due to the overcrowding of the place.
Liberia National Fire and Rescue Services (LNFRS) was established to safeguard life and property from scourge of destructive fire across the length and breadth of the country, as well as to promote efficient fire prevention services, with its mission to safeguard life and property of all residents, Liberians and non-Liberians alike, from the hazards of fire, both potential and real throughout the length and breadth of the country, promote efficient fire prevention services, always improving firefighting methods and practices in keeping with international standards; encourage, pursue, and maintain the exchange of ideas, experience and a cordial working relationship with other firefighting agencies locally and internationally.
The goal of the LNFRS is the full attainment of the overall mission statement of the Liberia National Fire and Rescue Service.
The fire department has four basic areas where services are offered: fire prevention, which is an activity of fire safety involving the regular inspection of various types of occupancies and vehicles; providing education for precautionary and protection measures that are necessary to ensure safety from fire, this is referred to as fighting the fire before its occurrence; firefighting, which involves the physical combat of the outbreak, burning and spread of fire, which requires the combination of basic training with professional skills and the use of proper equipment and tools-fighting fire during occurrence; ambulance services, which uses professional and simple life-saving methods, combined with skills and life-saving equipment to save life or evacuate from cave-ins in burning buildings, vehicles and other entrapments; and fire investigation, which uses conventional approaches and skills to conduct ground assessment of fire incidents and determine their causes and effects.
