Kaduna Airport Meets ICAO Requirements To Cope With Fire – FAAN

The Management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Friday said that the Kaduna airport has met all the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) requirements to cope with fire situations. Mr Yakubu Dati, General Manager, Corporate Communications of FAAN confirmed to newsmen in Lagos that the airport had a category seven fire cover status.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the control tower of the Kaduna Airport was engulfed in a fire incident on April 20; which, however, recorded no casualty. Dati said that the airport also meets all the ICAO requirements to operate under that category, including manpower, fire tenders and requisite fire equipment.

He noted that every airport in the country, including the Kaduna Airport at the moment, had adequate fire cover, in line with the ICAO recommendations. “The Authority hereby wishes to state first, that the Kaduna Airport’s control tower was not razed down by the fire, as publicly alleged.” He said that only the cabin of the control tower was affected. “On the contrary, it was the quick intervention of our firemen that prevented the old prefabricated control tower from being razed down completely.

“Between 2012 and 2013, the number of serviceable fire hydrant systems at our airports has been increased from two to seven, with work in progress at 11 more hydrant systems,” he said. The General Manager said that all the airports across the nation have received additional modern fire tenders. He noted that new firemen have been recruited, trained and redeployed to airports, according to their manpower needs, in line with ICAO recommendations.

(NAN)

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