Fire safety education left in ‘limbo’

NO SINGLE body is promoting fire safety educational programmes and media campaigns now the National Safety Council is being subsumed into a new body, a leading safety campaigner said yesterday.

Twenty-five years after the Stardust disaster, it is unforgivable that fire safety promotion has been left in “limbo”, according to the NSC’s former chairperson, Waterford city councillor Mary Roche.

Until the disbanding of the NSC Board on December 31 last, its Fire Safety Committee effectively directed all educational programmes, media campaigns and community activities on fire safety.