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Blazing wheels to fight fires on Dubai roads
A sports car will now help put out fires - beating traffic with its small size and fast performance, a senior official said.
- Staff Report
- Published: 00:59 September 5, 2007
- Image Credit: Press Release
- The Corvette is equipped with a portable fire extinguisher and a first aid kit. The large size of conventional vehicles makes it difficult for them to reach accident scenes quickly.
Dubai: A sports car will now help put out fires - beating traffic with its small size and fast performance, a senior official said.
Brigadier Rashid Thani Al Matroushi, Director of Dubai Civil Defence, said the civil defence will soon start using a customised Corvette car to attend to fires quickly, to prevent them spreading.
He said the car is a small, light and fast car which can beat traffic and contains highly-effective firefighting and prevention systems in addition to rescue equipment in cases where people are trapped in cars.
Equipment in the car includes a portable fire extinguisher, hydraulic equipment, firefighting equipment and first aid equipment.
Brigadier Al Matroushi who suggested the idea of developing a sports car and followed up its development daily, said one of the reasons behind a fire getting worse was the distance between civil defence centres and accident locations. The large size of civil defence vehicles makes it difficult to arrive quickly at the scene, therefore the need arose to develop a fast car.
Captain Sulaiman Abdulkareem, Director of Civil Defence Technical Affairs, said the developing of the car took two months by four members.
The car is currently being exhibited at an exhibition in Qatar.
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