BSB Fire Station receives Thailand visitors

A group of undergraduates from Chiangmai University, Thailand paid a short visit to the Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) Fire Station in the capital yesterday (14 April 2011, Thursday). The short visit is part of the visitors schedule during their stay in Brunei. The Chiangmai undergraduates are in Brunei to visit their Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) counterparts who participated the ASEAN Universities Games (AUG) which was held at Chingmai last year.

The group was also joined by two Liason Officers (LO) from UBD. Upon arrival at the station the group was greeted by the BSB Fire Station Station Commander Assitant Superintendent of Fire Rescue ASFR Pg.Asmali bin Pg.Hj.Ahmad. ASFR Pg.Asmali briefed the students on the fire station history and detail.

The Chiangmai visitors also given opportunity on wearing the firefighting equipment and also riding the fire engines at the station. Two demonstration was held during the visit namely the wearing of Breathing Apparatus (B.A set) and snake catching demonstration. The visit concluded with the group photo session.