Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), in its endeavour to prevent fire mishaps on trains and stations, has equipped Automatic Fire Detection and Alarm Systems on coaches and stations. State of art fire detection system & auto stoppage system has been installed in 55 AC coaches during April-December, 2022. As power cars and pantry cars are more vulnerable to fire, 98 power cars and 38 pantry cars were equipped with the fire detection system in addition to 272 LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) AC coaches till December, 2022. Moreover, 500 numbers of non-AC coaches have also been provided with fire extinguisher systems with anti-theft arrangement covering total 2155 number of non-AC coaches over NFR till December this financial year. During April to December, 2022, 13 stations were equipped with the fire detection and alarm system. (Photo Courtesy: NFR)
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