How does ur country respond to your urgencies?

[Pikiboy]

Sincerely I am coming from the 3rd or 4th world Country, where emergency response are too poor and the security aspect is nothing to write home about.
The reason why I raised this topic is that, in other countries their emergency numbers responds very faster than anything else in our country, let say when there is a fire out break within a few minutes you would see their fire emergencies system will quickly respond to that urgency but in our country, I am not sure if they would respond even in the next 48hrs to know what was the problems.
There was a fire out break weeks ago were a well known car dealer lost all his cars in his stands due to the failed security system in our country and the lack of rescue team made him loss everything and no single car that was rescued.

Has such a thing happened in your country?

[Charles-Tim]

Officially, there is no forth world countries. Your country is probably classified among the third world country.

I know the country that you are referring to.

I noticed fire fighters are trying in your country, but they need more funds.

Do not think it can not also happen in other countries, especially if the fire is caused by PMS (petrol) or gas.

You can post the news about how it happened so that we can have better discussion about it.

[Free Market Capitalist]

Has such a thing happened in your country?

That’s hasn't happened where I live, but I live in a first-world country and I know of a case of sudden cardiac arrest that was miraculously saved. The person fell to the ground, and the person next to him knew how to perform CPR, while others called the emergency number. However, the first responders to arrive 15 minutes later weren’t the ambulance, but the police, and the ambulance arrived another 20 or 25 minutes later. In total, during 45 minutes people took turns performing CPR on him until the ambulance arrived, and miraculously, he’s alive and has no lasting effects. That happened in an urban area, not out in the middle of the woods.

On average, emergency services function better in first-world countries, but they have their limitations.

[bitLeap]

Has such a thing happened in your country?

In my country, the most agile are firefighters rather than police. We just need to call the fire department and then arrive but when there is some kind of theft etc. report to the police the response rate is very bad, slow and too verbose even if necessary we have to give bribes so that it is faster to respond and that makes many cases difficult to solve.

[Rruchi man]

You can post the news about how it happened so that we can have better discussion about it.

Maybe it is this news that I also watched a video of on social media.
SEE HERE

You notice that emergency response did not work mainly because of a lack of support from the government. The cause often is a lack of water, lack of petrol to power their fire trucks, no emergency personnel on the ground due to no employment, etc. It is usually one unreasonable reason or the other.  

If you find any functioning firefighter service, it is privately owned, not from the government. Sometimes it is not because of a lack of funds to improve emergency responses that is the problem, it is corruption still.

[_act_]

Maybe it is this news that I also watched a video of on social media.
SEE HERE

He took 3 hours before the firefighters was able to get there, in a country that the government will be on the neck of the car dealer if he does not pay tax. The government of many countries have failed, collecting tax not to improve the country. This is very bad. Where are your money for tax going? Firefighters supposed to be government owned, but private ones can also be additional help.

[kingstep]

There was a fire out break weeks ago were a well known car dealer lost all his cars in his stands due to the failed security system in our country and the lack of rescue team made him loss everything and no single car that was rescued.

Has such a thing happened in your country?

When you are dealing with a situation whereby a state has a large population with congested traffic and yet, the only thing they have is just a few fire service outlet that are supposed to carter for the needs of the entire state, why wont there be fire incident with little to no response? if you are resident in a functional country,  then it is certain that there will be provision for some of this things. as a matter of fact, one of the ways to know that you are in a dysfunctional place is the unavailability of most of these things.

There are security agencies and ministries in all nations that are set up to respond to any form of emergency. how they go about this responsibility depends on how they are expected to be accountable if they fail to do the needful.

[New Judgement]

Such a pity that the car dealer don’t have fire extinguishers or other fire fighting instruments in the car stand. Knowing fully well that the fire services response in the country is very poor. As a business owner you have to be sensitive to the environment that you are doing your business. You have to be fully prepared for any situation you know that will cost you so much. If the car dealer had made provisions of fire fighting equipments at the shop, when the fire broke out, the staffs would have relied on those fire extinguishers and other fire fighting tools to put off the fire, without relying on the government provided fire services.

[Emjay24]

I noticed fire fighters are trying in your country, but they need more funds.

It depends on the locality you see them trying, because from what I've seen they're not trying at all. I've seen a situation whereby firefighters were called for a fire outbreak and they had no water in their vehicles and before they went to fetch water and arrive, everything has already been destroyed. Sometimes the funding was provided but was diverted by their heads of operations

Most people in that country does the fire fighting service themselves instead of calling the service, since their response is slow or void. Most times you see people using water and detergent to stop a fire outbreak instead of relying on firefighters that may not come.

[Pikiboy]

Officially, there is no forth world countries. Your country is probably classified among the third world country.

I know the country that you are referring to.

I noticed fire fighters are trying in your country, but they need more funds.

Do not think it can not also happen in other countries, especially if the fire is caused by PMS (petrol) or gas.

You can post the news about how it happened so that we can have better discussion about it.

I can across this news on social media which I will drop the link here for you to know. Usually, the responsive team are very weak because if they were to be active this wouldn't had been that bad.
As we know, in any country that is active there will always be everything functional than none and see that a business someone investmented hugely got burnt down due to lack of emergency rescue team.

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[Sparkplug90]

Emergency responses vary from from country to country but also the agency responsible for the type of emergency in occurrence for example; a central traffic response agency to direct traffic to the corresponding agency, firefighters for fires, EOD Bomb squad for bomb threats, paramedic services for medical emergencies, police for criminal emergencies and so on.
I am also coming from a third world country and I know how painful the feeling can be as well, I feel regardless of how early the call for help was made, it boils down to the kind of resources made available and also policies in place by government towards the responding emergency agency to ensure that they are always able to respond effectively and efficiently.