Equipping 60 Public Schools in the North with Fire Safety Equipment

A Fire Safety Initiative done by George Nassim Khoriaty Foundation with LFPC

Feeling responsible for students’ safety in the schools, and after the increasing threat on the students’ lives due to various fire incidents, the Lebanese Fire Prevention Committee – LFPC completed the second phase from the initiative to distribute fire
safety equipments to public schools in North Lebanon, in collaboration with George Nassim Khoriaty Foundation and Lebanese Association for School Safety Awareness (LASSA).
This initiative which is in its second phase covered over 60 public schools in the Governorates of Batroun, Koura, Zghorta and Mina -Tripoli, whereby each school was given fire extinguishers, smoke detector alarms in addition to thousands of brochures and posters and YASA.org newspapers.
A professional team from LFPC gave trainings on how to use these equipments in order to achieve higher performance in fire fighting.
The public schools in North Lebanon which received fire safety equipments till June 2008 exceeded 60 schools.
LFPC and its partners hope to reach all public schools around Lebanon in an aim to prevent more tragic fire incidents.

For more details of this initiative, please visit www.lfpc.org