KARACHI, Dec 2: Unsatisfactory fire fighting arrangements have reportedly been found in over 90 per cent of high-rise buildings in Saddar Town by the city government’s joint team.

According to sources, the joint team comprising officials of the city government’s civil defence and fire brigade department, the KBCA and Saddar Town municipal administration, completed the survey of the town’s high-rise buildings on Friday. It will submit its report to the City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, in a couple of days.

“During the survey, the joint team’s officials inspected as many as 3,250 high-rise buildings of Saddar Town,” the sources said, adding that the team not only detected inadequate safety measures but also found improper fire fighting arrangements in over 90 per cent of the town’s high-rise buildings.

The sources said that the city government’s civil defence and fire brigade department was expected to issue notices to owners of high-rise buildings where a number of irregularities concerning fire-fighting arrangements and safety measures had been found.

The joint team was formed by the city nazim in the third week of November for surveying the city’s high-rise buildings to know whether fire-fighting arrangements and proper safety measures had been provided in such buildings or not.

The team’s members included the KBCA’s Acting Controller of Buildings, Rauf Akhtar Farooqui, Controller of Buildings, Shafiq Ahmed, the city government’s civil defence and fire brigade department’s District Officer Shoaib Mohammad Khan and others.