Tanzania: Burning City Building Exposes Frailties of Dar's Fire Brigade

Dar es Salaam — In clear evidence of how the Fire and Rescue Force is unprepared to face urgent incidents, yesterday the team struggled to put out fire that had broken at a two-storey building located at Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam's Central Business District (CBD).

The fire started at 10:30am at the two-storey building located at Aggrey and Livingstone Street in Kariakoo but the Fire and Rescue vehicles as well as members of the force arrived at the scene one hour later.

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