Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: March | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 10-30
Assessment of Fire Service Station Response to Filling Stations Fire Outbreak and Vulnerable Healthcare Centers to Filling Stations in Urban Settlement
Adewuyi, Gbola Kehinde
Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, the Polytechnic, Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Fire stations with the help of the fire-fighters play an important role in emergence of fire outbreak and explosions in terms of rescue and safety. Urban centre such as Ibadan, Oyo State and one of the most populated city in Nigeria experience hazard caused by fire outbreak either by person or organization leading to loss of life and properties and this has become a critical issue to addressed. Therefore, this study examines the response of fire service stations to filling stations fire outbreak and vulnerable healthcare centres in urban core area of Ibadan metropolis Nigeria using geographical information system application. Site investigations were done to obtain the spatial location information of fire stations, filling stations and healthcare centres using handheld GPS (Garmin 78s). The acceptable standard by the Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources, Oyo State Urban and Regional Planning Board and the Federal Fire Service for the fire service station for the service area were considered. Further analysis was done using Microsoft excel 2007 and ArcGIS 10.3. The results showed that, out of the 153 filling stations within the study area, only 30 (9.6%) are within the 300m local authority standard interval. 11 (7.2%) are within the 400m regulation standard by the Department of Petroleum Resources. Moreover, 49 (32%) filling stations in the area had their dispensing pumps not less than 15m to the road as specified by Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria. 93 (60.8%) filling stations are within the radius of 2.7km to the fire service stations. Only 11 (7.2%) heath care centres are of high vulnerability to filling stations within a radius of 200m, 20 (13.1%) was at moderate zone with radius of 300m while 122 (79.7%) was at low zone. The study showed that the fire station response to filling stations fire outbreak in the study area reduces the risk associated since larger percentage of filling stations was in line with the fire service station required distance thereby lowering the risk of healthcare centres to the filling station fire outbreak.
Keywords: Geographic information systems; Rescue and safety; Site investigation; Acceptable standard.
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