Mombasa County through the department of Transport, Infrastructure and public works is set to build six more fire stations in the county to boost the main fire station at Mwembe Tayari.

According to the County Executive Committee Member for the department Taufiq Balala the six fire stations will be set up in each of the six sub counties starting with a substation at Bamburi, before the end of 2022.

"Since the first tenure of devolution we have dedicated ourselves to building team of resilient and proactive fire fighters who have undoubtedly performed satisfactorily" said Balala

Adding " Mombasa currently boasts of an eight minute response time which is just one minute shy off the standard time of seven minutes".

Balala was speaking after he toured the Mombasa main fire station and interacted with the fire fighters.

He also revealed that they will be expanding operations at the main fire station by modernising the  available equipments and building the capacity of the fighters to respond to even more complex emergencies.