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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>FIRE on Tuesday night swept through a truck park at the Kasumbalesa border post in Chililabombwe district on the Copperbelt burning three trucks with assorted goods that were destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n

The Government through the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) says it will come up with a robust mechanism that can help avert such eventualities occurring in the district. Both Chililabombwe District Commissioner (DC) Precious Njekwa and Mayor Lucky Sichone confirmed the development in separate interviews.<\/p>\n

Ms Njekwa said the three trucks which included one from Zambia and the other two of foreign origin caught fire around 20:00 hours at a truck park at the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) facility.<\/p>\n

She said two of the trucks were carrying Sulphur while the other one had 36 drums of extraction regents, both materials were being transported to the mines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree trucks on Tuesday night caught fire at the Kasumbalesa border post leaving the assorted goods they were carrying to the DRC burnt during the incident, \u201cshe said.<\/p>\n

Ms Njekwa said a team of fire fighters from the DRC, Chililabombwe Municipal Council (CMC),Chingola Municipal Council(CMC), Lubambe Copper Mines (LCM) and Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) team were dispatched to the scene of the incident to quench the fire.<\/p>\n

She said the team managed to quench the fire around 24:00 hours adding that the delay was as a result of failure to have a stationed fire engine and officers at the border. Ms Njekwa also explained that the cause of fire was not yet known and investigations have since been instituted.<\/p>\n

She said her office was yet to make an official appeal to relevant authorities, especially through the central government to enable the area to have its own fire response team and equipment stationed at the border to help respond to emergencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire was quenched quite late because we do not have an available fire tender and officers stationed at the border to respond to such emergencies and this is why we need to have such facilities here so that response is quickened,my office is yet to lobby through central government on this matter,\u201dshe said.<\/p>\n

Mr Sichone described the situation as unfortunate and also reiterated the need to have equipment and officers stationed at the border. Meanwhile DMMU national coordinator Gabriel Pollen who visited the scene of the incident said he was saddened with the loss incurred by the three trucks hence the need to ensure that a solution was found to minimize loss of goods , property as well as lives.<\/p>\n

Dr Pollen said the unit was in talks with the ministry of local government, the council and other stakeholders at the border to come up with a robust comprehensive mechanism that could help avert such eventualities occurring in the district. He said such incidents had the potential to frustrate the economic activities of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy office will ensure that we come up with a robust comprehensive mechanism in terms of standards of operating procedures when we have such emergencies because as you know such incidents have the potential to frustrate economic activities of the country, \u201che said.<\/p>\n

SADC truck drivers association of Zambia secretary general Jackson Banda cautioned truck drivers against the tendency of cooking near truck parks. Mr Banda said there was a need to ban cooking under or near trucks.<\/p>\n

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