Each of the 17 constituency’s in Nairobi will have a fire station.
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has said this will help save lives and property whenever a fire break outs.
Sonko was speaking during the launch of the Multi-hazard Urban Risk transition project at City Hall.
The project is aimed at improving disaster knowledge, management and response.
With Sonko were Professor Mark Pelling, Kings College London-UK, the Nairobi County CECs and Chief Officers.
“Nairobi is mostly faced with floods, droughts, fire outbreak, collapse of buildings and disease outbreak” the Governor said.
Sonko said his administration is reviewing the Nairobi County Disaster Management Act 2015 so as to be more responsive to current unforeseen threats.
The partnership with the said project is an opportunity for Nairobi to develop innovative, training policies and risk assessment and management support tools.
During the launch Professor Mark Pelling said Nairobi is the African representative of a network that has received funds for disaster preparedness.
Nairobi is among the four cities in the world that got a share of £20 million for disaster management to be distributed over the next four years.
Pelling said it’s exciting the project is being run from Nairobi.
Disaster Management and coordination chief officer Anne Mwendwa said disaster management is a relative new sector and needs research, new policies and resources to be effectively implemented.
She added that there are four phases of disaster management including preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery but the county wants to focus on preparedness and mitigation.
Karura MCA Joseph Wambugu said efforts to prepare Nairobi better for disasters have seen a modern and fully equipped fire station put up in Gigiri to help put out fires on time.
Gigiri is in Westlands Constituency which has several slums including Kangemi, Githogoro and Deep Sea.