Bomba to deploy rapid action teams to face monsoon floods


ALOR SETAR: The Fire and Rescue Department has set up the Northeast Monsoon Rapid Action Team, which will be deployed in several specific zones, in preparation to face the possibility of major flood disasters nationwide.

Its director-general Datuk Seri Abdul Wahab Mat Yasin (pic) said the teams would be equipped with various special assets, and if their services were needed they would be immediately mobilised to the scene of the incident.

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