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.

[Accardo]

I have only seen the emergency number work on TV, have once dialed 911 just to be sure it works, but the responder happens to be very far from my location. Over here we depend on the community for emergencies, close friends use their cars as ambulance to carry pregnant women in labor, passersby stand to attend to fatal accidents, and taking wounded people to the hospital, youths rush in with foamy water to put a burning building to a stop and neighbors come in to settle the disputes of quarrelling couple in the neighborhood, no standard body is responsible for all of these, the people around take care of one another in times of emergency.

[Pikiboy]

I have only seen the emergency number work on TV, have once dialed 911 just to be sure it works, but the responder happens to be very far from my location. Over here we depend on the community for emergencies, close friends use their cars as ambulance to carry pregnant women in labor, passersby stand to attend to fatal accidents, and taking wounded people to the hospital, youths rush in with foamy water to put a burning building to a stop and neighbors come in to settle the disputes of quarrelling couple in the neighborhood, no standard body is responsible for all of these, the people around take care of one another in times of emergency.

To be honest this is what we often experience from my country because the emergency team can't be physically present at that moment. Of course is the responsibility of government to provide emergency rescue team around all states and LGA whereby if there is any emergency they will pick up from there in an emergency manner. But this, only individual that would solidify for such incidents instead of government taking care of the emergency across all localities.

[Bd officer]

Actually, it will be different in every country, in a developed country everything can be easily available. In my area, the road conditions are very bad, so if there is a fire somewhere, there is no response when you call the emergency number. And I live in a village, so if there is a fire somewhere, no one calls the emergency number.
Probably 10 days ago, a house in my village caught fire and everything was burnt, there was poor communication system there, so there was no response when we called the emergency number. Many of us tried to control the fire but it was too late.
If there is a fire somewhere in the city, there is a response when you call the emergency number but they do not come quickly.

[Taricoins]

Some people will end up saying this topic isn't related to economics, it isn't that much but we can draw the line, the scenario you painted tells us alot about the security of your residential country and that poses a risk for big businesses because that guy just lost majority of his assets. Some countries don't even have a simplied emergency number like the 911, some even have to memorize the 10 digit number and they vary for each branch.

[Perfectbaby]

I have also came across this information about a car point burning down and that happens from Lagos Nigeria were the entire car get burned down without any help and before they tried to off the fire every get down.
I do not know how other countries may happen to go faster than one can imagined, because the incident that happened was very late night at that moment people are not that aware and you can not also pulled out the fire service at that time. Although, Nigeria is also another funny country were her government takes nothing serious.

[Frankolala]

After I experienced a bad scenario that played out and an urgent need for the police to be there to save lives was not taken seriously by the police station that was called. I felt disappointed on calling for urgency. Imagine, arm robbers were robbing a family and a call was put to the nearest police station and all they could say is that, they don't have petrol in their Hilux and cannot come. They later arrived two hours after the robbery incident. What did they come for, eye service. Urgent response in third world country is like gambling with your life. It's better that you look for any means to help yourself out, if there's one.

[Bluedrem]

Has such a thing happened in your country?

My country has the same problem. The government here collects taxes from the citizens but is very weak in providing citizen services. Starting from healthcare to other services that a common citizen expects from the state, a citizen here does not get those services in full. If I talk about the government hospitals in my country, the supply of medical equipment is very less compared to the demand. And if you go to all those hospitals, you will see patients lying on the floor. In that case, the number of doctors and nurses in those hospitals is also less.
And talking about emergency services, yes, the emergency services in my area respond quickly but due to the poor condition of the roads, they suffer a lot of damage before they reach the scene. Like you, I also witnessed an incident that happened in my neighborhood. Here, a house caught fire due to electrical fault, then when the fire service was quickly informed, they quickly left the station but the condition of the roads was such that by the time they reached the scene, the entire house was burnt down.

[Nothingtodo]

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?

In my country, if you call the helpline for an emergency, they may respond late, but if necessary, they come to your side. But the saddest thing is that if you call the helpline among the law enforcement agencies in our country, they respond late. For example, if there is a fire somewhere, if the fire service is called, the fire service quickly goes to the scene and tries to bring the situation under control. But if the police are called, the police must first make a case diary to investigate the incident, and then take appropriate action after making the case diary. But such promptness to take action very quickly on the spot is not present among the law enforcement agencies.

[AmaGold70]

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?

It is very annoying to see that some countries are enjoying swift response to emergency calls while some suffer delays in responding to their emergency situation. This is the same thing with my country too. Am from a country where emergency responses are very poor. As for fire outbreak, fire filters are only found in major cities, and when there is such emergency before they near the scene of that incident the fire must have engulfed everything except their is any other alternative means, and the reason is because their is no special road for fire fighting trucks, so when the traffic volume is high, the fire truck remain trap on hold up without any means of going out, and that is poor road network for things that matters so much.