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Contact:
Claudia Monlouis
Thursday, September 16, 2004 - The Saint Lucia Fire and Ambulance Service
is in the process of preparing to give assistance to their counterparts in
hurricane ravaged Grenada. Local Chief Fire Officer Mr. Augustin Gaspard who is
also the President of the Caribbean Chief and Acting Chief Fire Fighters
Association – CADAFCO, explained that all affiliates to the regional body are
being sensitized on the plight of their fellowmen in Grenada.
“We don’t want to just be sending things like everybody is doing where probably
they may have a special need so what we a trying to get in touch with them to
identify their special area of need which we will be responding to but they have
already some funds identified for that process.”
Meanwhile, as part of raising awareness of the fire and ambulance service
Divisional Officer of the Saint Lucia Fire Service Hilton Occulien is calling on
the public to be mindful of the confusion which can be caused by the use of ring
tones on cell phones which imitate the sirens on the emergency services
vehicles. Mr. Occulien says the indiscriminate and irresponsible use of the
facility reserved for emergency services will impact how people respond to
sirens in the future. “We need to understand those things yes we are have these
modes on our phone but we have to look at if we are using it, when and where
because it can also become a nuisance if misused.”
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