By Grace Q. Bryant
Montserrado County District #4 Representative, Michael Thomas, has recommended to the Plenary of the House of Representatives for budgetary allocation for Paynesville City to purchase fire truck.
Representative Thomas said due to the constant outbreak of fire disasters in recent time, several persons have lost properties because of the absence of a fire truck in Paynesville.
The Montserrado County lawmaker made the plea on Thursday, February 15, during a regular session, through a communication addressed to the Speaker.
According to the House’s Committee Chair on Judiciary, his communication is a result of the recent fire outbreaks across the country especially in the city of Paynesville that has caused unbearable setbacks to citizens.
He told his colleagues that the Municipal City of Paynesville, of recent has witnessed several instances across the city within the space of 30 days, mainly destroying the homes of residents in District 4 and other districts within the City of Paynesville, Montserrado County, with specific reference to the incident that occurred at the residence of Senator Saah H. Joseph.
He explained that the lack of fire trucks impeded the delivery of fire services during the unexpected incident that nearly took his life.
“The City of Paynesville has five electoral districts that are densely populated, with over 450,000 persons who are living in structures with high volatility of fire outbreak,” he explained.
He added, “As we are aware, the Municipal City of Paynesville do not have a single Fire Truck to boast of, thus leaving them vulnerable during any fire outbreak as the National Fire Service has to dispatch its fire truck from as far as Ashmun Street, in Monrovia thus arriving after substantial damages to Lives and properties have occurred”.
Representative Thomas therefore craved the indulgence of plenary to kindly consider budgetary allocation in the 2024 pending budget under the Paynesville City budget for the procurement of a fire truck for the people of Paynesville, in an effort to minimize the unprecedented death and material loses the people of Paynesville have encountered over the past months.
After the reading of the communication, a motion was made to send the communication to the Ways, Means, and Finance Committee to act.
