The Federal government has said it is making plans to purchase firefighting aircraft to enable firemen fight large scale fires aerially.

Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known at the unveiling the first ever modern Metropolitan Fire station in Kubwa, Abuja.

He said the station is the first among 13 approved by the federal government to be built across the federation in selected locations.

He also said the attention in the acquisition of aircrafts that can carry large scale solution to bomb such large scale fire in the six geo-political zones of the country.