In response to the spate of fires occurring across the country recently Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Michael Pintard has suggested the Royal Bahamas Police Force Fire Branch be overhauled.

Pintard said, “the fires on multiple islands Grand Bahama, New Providence, Andros, Abaco are really devastating for us at this time where we must now find scarce resources to try and repair, in some cases, businesses, livelihoods for Bahamians. And this tragedy with so many fires on different islands raises the concern of how do we as a country with a chain of islands prepare for the unfortunate.”

Chief Superintendent Mareno Hinds of the Royal Bahamas Police Force Fires Services Department was the guest on The Rundown talk show on Monday speak on the present capabilities of the branch and what is expected to come online. He said, “those men and women, they are highly skilled, as I asserted earlier, and they play two roles, they are police officers and they are trained firefighters.”

The Chief Superintendent also spoke to what is to come for fire services. He said, “we traveled to Germany and Scotland with a view to acquiring some apparatuses for the family islands in particular. And I’m please to say in very short order the Commissioner will announce that we’re doing some very good things and we believe that we’re going to bring relief to many of our family islands.”