Bomba helps sanitisation at SK Kelawit

TATAU: The Tatau Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) is conducting sanitisation at Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Kelawit to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic as well as in preparation for the opening of the school session on March 15. The decontamination operation involved the indoor and outdoor areas of the teachers’ room, classroom, foyer, kindergarten […]

Land and Survey Department temporarily closed for disinfection

KUCHING: The Sarawak Land and Survey Department Headquarters will temporarily close service operations at Menara Pelita Building, Petra Jaya here from today and tomorrow to conduct sanitation works at its premises operations will resume as normal the following Monday. “This (temporary closure) is intended as a safety and health measure to enable the sanitation process […]

KWB closes its customer service counter until Feb 12

KUCHING: A customer service staff member of the Kuching Water Board (KWB) tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday evening. In a statement, KWB said the staff member’s last entry to KWB was on Monday, Jan 25. “KWB will close its customer service and payment counter with immediate effect for two weeks from Jan 29 until […]

Nine locations in Long Lama sanitised

MARUDI: The Marudi Fire and Rescue Station carried out public sanitisation operations at nine locations in Long Lama here today (Jan 14). Its Public Communication Unit said the operation was led by Marudi fire chief Maureen Sim Ah Lian. It said the operations were carried out after a close contact of the Bah Sayap Covid-19 Cluster […]

Medan Niaga Satok disinfected

KUCHING: Medan Niaga Satok here was closed yesterday for sanitisation work following the detection of a new Covid-19 cluster (Satok Market Cluster) there. Four traders at the market had tested positive for Covid-19 on July 27. None showed any signs or symptoms. Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas told a […]

Firm donates virucide to Bomba

KUCHING: EGM (Asia) Sdn Bhd on Tuesday donated 1,000 litres of Virol-Oxy solution to the State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) for its statewide disinfection operations. State Bomba director Khirudin Drahman received the donation from managing director Eric Goh at the Bomba headquarters on Tuesday (July 14). The handover ceremony was witnessed by Local Government […]

Sanitisation efforts by Bomba, MBKS

KUCHING: Stutong Community Market was disinfected by Kuching South City Council (MBKS) and the State Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) yesterday morning. The disinfection works was witnessed by Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Seri Dr Sim Kui Hian and MBKS mayor Datuk Wee Hong Seng. The operation led by Bomba Zone 1 chief Henderi […]

Fire department carries out 33 transport missions

MIRI: A total of 15 missions were carried out by the Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department transporting 33 Covid-19 patients including persons under investigation during the movement control order (MCO) period. According to the director, Khirudin Drahman, the missions involved nearly 1,000 foremen statewide. “Those were among the risks that we faced as frontliners while […]

Most temples in Bau disinfected

KUCHING: Eighty percent of the worship places in Bau has been disinfected, revealed Bau Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) Senior Assistant Fire Superintendant Tawang Lingem. He said 20 mosques and suraus as well as 40 churches in Bau had been disinfected. “The sanitising work was carried out at the requests of the community heads (Kapitan) […]

BEM Morsjaya church premises sanitised

MIRI: A group of firemen of Miri central fire station on Thursday carried out sanitisation work on Borneo Evangelical Mission (BEM) Morsjaya church, here. According to Penghulu Randi Elon, who is in-charge of the church’s property and development, the team arrived around 9am to carry out the sanitisation work on the first and second floors […]