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List of Fire Brigades. Colombo Fire Service Department - Colombo Municipal Council. Negombo Fire and Rescue - Negombo Municipal Council. Kotte Fire Brigade - Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Municipal Council. Kandy Fire Brigade - Kandy Municipal Council. Gampaha Fire Service Department - Gampaha Municipal Council.
Website. www.colombo.mc.gov.lk. The Colombo Municipal Council is the municipal governing body of Colombo, the largest city and financial centre in Sri Lanka. It consists of a directly elected executive Mayor of Colombo, and elected 119 municipal councilors. The council was formed in 1865, it first met in 1866 and derives most of its powers from ...
The Colombo National Museum, also known as the Sri Lanka National Museum, is a museum in Colombo and the largest in Sri Lanka.Founded in 1877 and maintained by the Department of National Museums, it holds collections of significant importance to Sri Lanka, such as the regalia of the Kandyan monarchs, as well as many other exhibits relating the country's cultural and natural heritage.
The emergency access number for Emergency Medical Services, reserved by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, for Sri Lanka is 1-1-0 and is operational in the districts of Colombo, Galle, Kandy, and Jaffna with plans to expand to provide national coverage. In February 2009, the Jaffna District 1-1-0 communications center was opened with ...
Bertram Edmund Weerasinghe, OBE (1904–1971) was a Ceylonese engineer and firefighter. He was the first Ceylonese Chief Fire Officer of Colombo. [citation needed] After studying engineering at the Staffordshire University, Weerasinghe returned to Ceylon and took on an engineering post. Unhappy with the work he applied for and was selected in ...
The Antarctic Fire Department is headquartered at McMurdo Station and is the only full-service fire department on the continent. They respond to all emergencies including fire, medical, and rescues at the American stations, McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole, and provide mutual aid response to other stations, notably the Kiwi Scott Base.
Liveramentu Cemetery, also locally known as Jawatta Cemetery or the Torrington Cemetery, is a large municipal cemetery, located approximately 1.5 km (0.93 mi) from the Colombo city centre, on Torrington Avenue. It is also the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in Sri Lanka. It is one of the six Commonwealth war cemeteries in Sri Lanka, and is ...
Anahita Hossein-Pour, PA. September 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM. A woman has died following an explosion at a bungalow in Kent. Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) confirmed her death after the blaze in ...