In most of the countries, the overall layout of firefighting facilities is an important part of fire control planning in the cities.
Reasonable construction of fire facilities and layout of fire stations
can improve governments' ability to reduce or prevent fire disasters
in cities considerably. Recently, with the rapid development of
national economy and urban construction, city scale is much larger
than before in the developing country like Nepal, but firefighting
facilities are relatively lagging in Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The
coordination between comprehensive ability to resist fire in the
city and its development reveal gradually. Juddha Fire Brigade,
located at a central core of the city i.e. on Basantapur (Fig.1 (b)), was
established in 1938 A.D. to serve 60,000 populations at that time
with a limited man powers. Till now, the same fire brigade is
serving for around one million population.