Mongmit, 18 November

The Township Fire Services Department, the Township Department of Electric Power and the Township Development Committee jointly conducted a fire drill at the Myoma market in the Town of Mongmit, Shan State (North) at about 9:00 on November 18.

On the occasion, U Zaw Maw, staff officer of the Township Fire Services Department and U Nay Aung, the Township Department Electric Power delivered speeches and discussed the risks of the fire.

After that, firefighters orchestrated how to use fire extinguishers, wet clothes and fire engines when a fire breaks out in the compound of the market. Afterwards, auxiliary fire fighters and local people practically extinguished fire with the use of fire extinguishers.—Si Thu Htay (District IPRD)

Translated by JT