MARGAO: Chief officer of the Margao Municipal Council (MMC), Siddhivinayak Naik, on Tuesday wrote to the South Goa district collector to the effect that the fire at Sonsoddo be declared as a “disaster” under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
The major fire that broke out at the garbage dump yard at Sonsoddo, at the outskirts of Margao, Monday afternoon continues to ceaselessly emit plumes of smoke and, at regular intervals, raging flames. Though the fire is under control and not spreading, officials of the fire and emergency services (F&ES) acknowledged that the air pollution caused by the thick black smog is turning out to be an environmental hazard.
“Since the fire broke out on Monday, five fire tenders from Margao, Curchorem, Ponda, Verna and Vasco, have made altogether 50 trips with 25 fire brigade personnel engaged in the fire fighting operation,” deputy director, F&ES, Nitin Raikar, told TOI.
Declaring a calamity as a 'disaster' under the Disaster Management Act by the state government, sources said, enables the authorities to release funds under the State Disaster Response Fund to carry out relief and rehabilitation works.
“Besides, services of multiple agencies can be utilised under an Incident Command system – the standardised hierarchical structure designed to aid in the management of resources during calamities – to ensure speedy response to disaster,” an official source said.
The move assumes significance in the wake of the decision of the MMC to order a consignment of Renerzyme, an eco-friendly bio-product, to be used in the fire fighting operations.
Confirming this, Naik told TOI, that the Renerzyme treatment was effectively deployed for dousing the fire that broke out at the garbage dump at Deonar, Mumbai, last year.
Officials of the company dealing in the product have claimed, Naik said, Renerzyme treatment could ensure that the fire and smog are controlled within a few hours. The technique was even tried at the landfill site at Vadodara in Gujarat and Jambuva in MP, and was found to be effective, sources said.
Fire brigade personnel commenced Renerzyme treatment on the burning garbage no sooner the consignment dispatched from Mumbai landed in Goa Tuesday evening. Senior officials of the firm assisted the fire brigade in the operations.
Explaining the process, officials of the firm said that the concentrate is added to the water tanker of the fire brigade in a proportion of 1:50 and sprayed on the dump. Once sprayed, the enzyme multiplies and stops the process of methane gas formation. Naik later told TOI that the exercise “appears to be proving effective”. “We will now be procuring additional 1,500 litres of the product which will be air-dashed to Goa from Mumbai,” he said.
The major fire that broke out at the garbage dump yard at Sonsoddo, at the outskirts of Margao, Monday afternoon continues to ceaselessly emit plumes of smoke and, at regular intervals, raging flames. Though the fire is under control and not spreading, officials of the fire and emergency services (F&ES) acknowledged that the air pollution caused by the thick black smog is turning out to be an environmental hazard.
“Since the fire broke out on Monday, five fire tenders from Margao, Curchorem, Ponda, Verna and Vasco, have made altogether 50 trips with 25 fire brigade personnel engaged in the fire fighting operation,” deputy director, F&ES, Nitin Raikar, told TOI.
Declaring a calamity as a 'disaster' under the Disaster Management Act by the state government, sources said, enables the authorities to release funds under the State Disaster Response Fund to carry out relief and rehabilitation works.
“Besides, services of multiple agencies can be utilised under an Incident Command system – the standardised hierarchical structure designed to aid in the management of resources during calamities – to ensure speedy response to disaster,” an official source said.
The move assumes significance in the wake of the decision of the MMC to order a consignment of Renerzyme, an eco-friendly bio-product, to be used in the fire fighting operations.
Confirming this, Naik told TOI, that the Renerzyme treatment was effectively deployed for dousing the fire that broke out at the garbage dump at Deonar, Mumbai, last year.
Officials of the company dealing in the product have claimed, Naik said, Renerzyme treatment could ensure that the fire and smog are controlled within a few hours. The technique was even tried at the landfill site at Vadodara in Gujarat and Jambuva in MP, and was found to be effective, sources said.
Fire brigade personnel commenced Renerzyme treatment on the burning garbage no sooner the consignment dispatched from Mumbai landed in Goa Tuesday evening. Senior officials of the firm assisted the fire brigade in the operations.
Explaining the process, officials of the firm said that the concentrate is added to the water tanker of the fire brigade in a proportion of 1:50 and sprayed on the dump. Once sprayed, the enzyme multiplies and stops the process of methane gas formation. Naik later told TOI that the exercise “appears to be proving effective”. “We will now be procuring additional 1,500 litres of the product which will be air-dashed to Goa from Mumbai,” he said.
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