They incinerated 2.2 MM in Fireworks

The Ministry of Interior and police (IPM) yesterday incinerated two million 200 thousand artificial fire units, from a total of 4,879,506 units seized several businesses throughout the country, during the past Christmas.

the holder of the portfolio, José Ramón Fadul, said that the amount of pyrotechnical devices occupied by the Department of Control of artificial fires (COFA) in the past year, holidays doubles the seized in the past two years.

he pointed out that due to the large amount of explosives seized, IPM will do another incineration next week with the rest of those games pyrotechnics.

the official highlighted the work sustained by IPM since the enactment in November 2009 by law 340-09 on the Control and the regulation of the products pyrotechnics.

a precise note that during the year 2009, IPM, through the u000aCOFA, he seized 1,753,639 units of fireworks, and that number rose to 1,806,903, for an increase of 53,264 units in 2010. Meanwhile, in 2011 he seized 4,879,506 units of fireworks, an increase of 3,072,603 units.

in total, over the past three years the MIP has seized a total of 8,440,048 units of fireworks, action means reduced the transfer illegal these artifacts and the number of injured has been reduced to zero with respect to years earlier.

the Ministry of Interior and police yesterday made the first incineration of these devices in the field of fire of the armed forces, located in Sierra Prieta, Yamasá, Monte Plata province. The ceremony was headed by the Director of the COFA, Ana Zayas, and by Colonel Pablo of Jesus Dipré, responsible for police and military affairs of IPM.

Fadul reference to major hospitals in the country u000aThey certified that there were no people with burns by fireworks in the past festivals of end of year

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