{"id":48054,"date":"2021-10-11T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=48054"},"modified":"2021-10-11T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:35:25","slug":"danger-as-mass-exodus-hits-harare-fire-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/danger-as-mass-exodus-hits-harare-fire-division","title":{"rendered":"Danger As Mass Exodus Hits Harare Fire Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Staff Reporter<\/b> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>AT least 125 firefighters have left City of Harare employ to seek greener pastures in the Middle East this year alone, posing a grave danger to the city\u2019s fire risk.<\/p>\n<p>City of Harare communications manager Michael Chideme confirmed the development saying the Harare\u2019s fire department has been left cripple by the mass exodus.<\/p>\n<p>He said council\u2019s capacity to provide efficient service delivery was being affected by the brain drain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are vacancies for firefighters at the moment after 125 of them left the country. We have enough equipment for firefighting, but what is being affected is the work schedule of the workers, as some will have to work for longer hours due to short staffing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, at the moment, the local authority has the capacity to attend to fire breakouts, although there is need to fill the vacancies of those who have left. Currently, the city council is working on addressing the workers\u2019 concerns so that we do not continue losing more workers to the diaspora.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The HCC fire department operates from Greendale, Waterfalls and Kuwadzana. In August, the fire department responded to 392 fire breakouts which were mostly veldfires, commercial, road traffic accidents and domestic faults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By Staff Reporter &#8211; AT least 125 firefighters have left City of Harare employ to seek greener pastures in the Middle East this year alone, posing a grave danger to the city\u2019s fire risk. City of Harare communications manager Michael Chideme confirmed the development saying the Harare\u2019s fire department has been left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-48054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Danger As Mass Exodus Hits Harare Fire Division - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter - AT least 125 firefighters have left City of Harare employ to seek greener pastures in the Mi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/danger-as-mass-exodus-hits-harare-fire-division\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Danger As Mass Exodus Hits Harare Fire Division\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter - 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