publish time

27/09/2023

author name Arab Times

publish time

27/09/2023

KUWAIT CITY, Sept 27: Firefighting sources said the financial losses resulting from the fires that the country witnessed during the first half of the current year are estimated at about 17 million dinars, reports Al-Qabas daily. The sources said that the country witnessed 2,108 fires that broke out from January 1 to June 30 2023, an increase of 3% over the same period last year, 2022. The sources explained that the material cost of losses in residential places amounted to 531 thousand dinars, while the material cost of losses in non-residential places, such as factories, plots, etc., amounted to more than 14 million dinars, and the financial cost of land transport losses amounted to one million and 600 thousand dinars, and other fires were responsible for the rest of the financial losses.

The sources indicated that residential fires during the first half of this year were 661, an increase of 4% over the same period last year, while the recorded non-residential fires were 260, an increase of 8% over the same period last year, while fires in other places recorded were 619, a decrease of 9% compared to last year, and land transportation fires recorded 556 fires, an increase of 17% over last year, and sea transportation fires recorded only 12 fires. The breakdown of the fires is as follows – 661 in residential places, 260 in non-residential places, 556 in land transportation, 12 in sea transportation and 619 elsewhere.