Dear Editor,
The continuing dry season has seen a high incidence of wildfires as well as grass fires over the past months. This has kept the GFS very busy. With each fire advisory would be issued to residents to remain vigilant and monitor their lands for any potential danger of fires. It is posited that by monitoring and maintaining their lands the risk of wildfires and grass fires can be reduced. But what about abandoned properties around the city and elsewhere?
In Cummings Street, North Cummingsburg, there is a plot of land that is in dispute and has been abandoned. No weeding or cleaning has been done for over two years. Across the street, in Alberttown, obliquely opposite to the disputed land, is another land that is in an overgrown condition. In this small area there are two potential fire hazards in this dry season. There must be other areas and places with similar situations. Abandoned properties pose a fire hazard in this dry season.
To ask the GFS to pay attention to these abandoned properties at this time, when its resources might be stretched, might just be too much.
So the question remains what about the abandoned properties?
Sincerely,
Shamshun Mohamed
