COTABATO CITY, Bangsamoro Region (August 17, 2025) — Local executives in Datu Blah Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte and their constituents and the vice governor of the province were elated with the release on Friday, August 15, by the Bangsamoro local government ministry of a new fire truck for the municipality.

The seaside Datu Blah Sinsuat, most known by its acronym DBS, is the fishing capital of Maguindanao del Norte, a progressing peaceful town in the province, being secured together by the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and units of the Navy’s 1st Marine Brigade under the operational control of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.

The DBS town in the west coast of Maguindanao del Norte is one of the municipalities that got a firetruck each from the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao during a symbolic turn over rite last Friday at the BARMM capitol in uptown Cotabato City.

The mayor of DBS, Raida Tomawis-Sinsuat, said on Saturday that the chief minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Abdulrauf Macacua, led the symbolic release then of the firetrucks to the mayors of the recipient towns in Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur, in the presence of representatives from the Bureau of Fire Protection.

“We are thankful to the officials of the Bangsamoro local government ministry and to Chief Minister Macacua for having allocated a firetruck for our municipality,” Tomawis-Sinsuat said on Sunday.

Maguindanao Vice Gov. Marshall Ibrahim Sinsuat, a former mayor of DBS, said he is grateful to Macacua and the officials of the MILG-BARMM for providing their municipality with a firetruck.

Macacua is a staunch supporter of the peace and development initiatives of the DBS local government unit, which covers scenic beachfront barangays, home to mixed Muslim, Christian and indigenous non-Moro Teduray communities.