Over 800 dwellings to be endowed with smoke detectors within campaign organized by Interior Ministry of Moldova

Chisinau, 19 February /MOLDPRES/ - Over 800 houses, in which families members of risk groups are living, will be endowed with autonomous smoke detectors. The action is part of a campaign title, A Dwelling Protected – a Life Rescued, started by the leadership of the Interior Ministry today.   

Attending the event of the campaign’s launch, Interior Minister Alexandru Jizdan said that the smoke detectors would be set, in particular, in houses from the rural regions, in which elderly people, invalids of needy families live, and 96,000 lei will be earmarked to this end.  

“On the period of 2000-2017, about 40,000 fires were recorded in Moldova, in the wake of which more than 3,000 people died, of whom 172 were children. The great majority of the fires occurred in private houses, especially in villages. At the same time, 282 cases of intoxications with carbon monoxide have been registered in the last five years, which resulted in 67 persons dead,” Jizdan added.  

The interior minister appealed to all citizens who afford to buy such installations and purchase them to tighten the security of their dwellings.

The campaign, A Dwelling Protected – a Life Rescued, started in the settlement Fauresti, in the suburbs of Chisinau, where specialists of the General Inspectorate or Emergency Situations (IGSU) set detectors in several homes.    

According to data by IGSU, over 200 fires have taken place in Moldova since the beginning of this year, in the wake of which 38 people died, among whom two children.

In the beginning of the last week, the leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc, said that he would ask the Interior Ministry to come up with solutions to enhance the security in the use of stoves and other heating devices. At that time, Plahotniuc noted that more socially vulnerable families from Moldova would receive smoke detectors free of charge.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)