How does ur country respond to your urgencies?

[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.

Your country system is not working perfectly. If your country system is working perfectly then you should understand that we have the day and night shift for those working, if there is a fire outbreak once you call the fire service they should come, fire outbreak usually happen in the night, so the fire service should always be at alert especially in the night.

I’m from Nigeria too just like you and I don’t even know if we have a fire service because I have not seen them operate before, the only time you know in Nigeria that we have a fire service is when they want to do employment, that agency don’t do anything and they should stop that agency since they are not doing their job.
I have not seen any fire outbreak that they came to stop the fire.

I don't think stopping  is the best thing to do because during employment you will see them hiring people without them even working. What we must know is that they should be able to adjust in terms of their action and when people request for them, there should be shift as you said were there will be people who would work at  night to fix every fire outbreak than them not responding to any emergencies.
Our country needs to upgrade in terms of emergencies and they are not always active.

[Abdul Sami786]

The country tries to meet the immediate needs of the people but still the people face many problems.The people still have to face problems like inflation and unemployment.In our country most of these two things should be fixed.The rest of the things the country gives us but they do not reach us equally.Just like there are good and private hospitals we do not have access to them.There are many employment opportunities but due to some problems they do not reach us.And there are good educational institutions but education is not provided equally everywhere.If some things are fixed then all the other systems will also be fixed.

[Rabata]

Well that incident can happen to anybody anywhere anytime in the world, emergency response or rescue team should be fast enough to respond to criticial situations, but sometimes they might be late and the whole place may have burnt down. There are situation that are worst than that in a civilized country. Accident do happen regardless of the location, but the question is that as a business person, what are the precaution measures taken in regards to personal safety or fire hazard? I believe safety is the first priority of any business, this mean that a person doing buying and selling needs fire extinguishers in all locations in regards to safety, so that when Minor issues happens, it can be controlled in it's early State. But in the absence of that, a little fire that would have been controlled at its early stage, but out of negligence, the man losed a lot.

A fire in a small shop often causes major damage. If some measures are taken at the beginning when a fire breaks out in that shop, then the damage can be reduced to a large extent. A business establishment or shop requires a few employees in addition to the owner, if a fire breaks out in that shop or business establishment and if it cannot be controlled, then the family of every employee in the shop will see financial problems, which can result in major losses.

If a small or large business establishment or shop has a fire extinguisher, then the fire can be extinguished in a short time. Many people avoid these things to save such expenses, as a result of which when a fire breaks out in their shop or business establishment, they are not able to extinguish the fire and later regret it themselves. Especially in the case of small businesses, not everyone has the financial capacity to handle a major accident.

Therefore, when starting a business, in addition to calculating profits, one should also prepare for possible risks, because whether the business is small or a big danger never comes, it is better to avoid danger. Keeping your employees, customers, and relationships safe during times of danger is your responsibility and a big part of success.

[Somto9Light]

OP that is why they are called 3rd world countries because they are underdeveloped or still developing. You rarely see a scenario where it will take fire service an hour to respond to an emergency situation because they have fire service scattered in different areas and they also have fire extinguishers in every home, offices and industrial areas. A country that doesn't value lives and properties will of course be very reluctant in responding to emergency services.

[Agbamoni]

Also heard the news on people's WhatsApp status. A lot happened that night the fire took place. I heard the first firefighter vehicle came without water in the tank. The fire was started by a match. People around there couldn't save the vehicles.

Your country's emergency number is 112. How many people have tried the number and it went through? I'm yet to see anyone who has used that number when in an emergency. One political member on a podcast claimed the number works. Eventually, the host demands the number be tried in the room. Behold, the number rang, but no one answered because it never works

[DYOR+BTC]

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?

All you are talking about happens basically because of corruption,  most of this countries you classify as 3rd and 4th world countries are countries blessed with numerous mineral resources but because of mismanagement it looks as if they don't have what it takes to propell themselves to fall among the countries with a good standard of living and if only little improvement is made in there system such will never happen.
You can never see a nation with good leadership system go through such nonsense,  so to make such good facilities function like that of others,  they should work on their leadership system.

[Mayor of ogba]

I saw the video of the fire outbreak that made the car dealer in question lost all his cars and felt sorry for him because all his efforts and struggles to give himself a good living has been ruined. OP, we are from the same country, everything you said about how our country respond to emergencies are all true, sometimes I used to ask myself where our country get it all wrong that people who are employed to perform a specific task won't be available to perform the task they are being paid for every month when they call them for that.

[Jerrycrypto2024]

I saw the video of the fire outbreak that made the car dealer in question lost all his cars and felt sorry for him because all his efforts and struggles to give himself a good living has been ruined. OP, we are from the same country, everything you said about how our country respond to emergencies are all true, sometimes I used to ask myself where our country get it all wrong that people who are employed to perform a specific task won't be available to perform the task they are being paid for every month when they call them for that.

Just like you did have the empathy or sympathy so I do towards that video of great loss, but blame some investor that lack some management strategies, car business is big business and required big capital having some safety measures of fire fighting machine should be among the planing and management strategy of the investor not everything we expected quick response and smooth speed help the way we need most during urgency or emergency, there is some device you can put in the environment that can quench fire without having the mobile car, pressure pump would have been planted around the four edges of the business environment just that our government don't respond to urgency, and it's good planing well in every business against any odd they will require such help coming from the government by having the minimum safety measures before external help.

[Alonso_]

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?

Op I know the country you’re talking about, the emergency response in that country you’re talking about is poor in everything, I must say their is no emergency response in that country, sometimes I wonder if there are fire fighters in that country, if their is a fire outbreak in that country just expect nothing less than destruction of lives and property, because no fire fighters to come to your rescue, concerning health that is the worst of them all because I doubt there is any emergency ambulance to come to your rescue, I must admit anything emergency is poor in that country you’re talking about.

[hafiztalha]

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.

I agree with your point that emergency response to any urgency is one of the basic responsibilities of any good government. A state has to increase their emergency response capacity with the growing population, traffic congestion and urban expansion. Only having few fire services is  inadequate for an entire state is concerning because even when firefighters tries to respond immediately still problems like traffic  congestion and long distance can make the service ineffective.

However, there must be proper funding, there must be proper modern equipment available and trained personal and there must be proper accountability. And when there is negligence or poor planning by the government that has led to loss of life or loss of property, government officials should be held responsible and accountable. A government is not only judged by their projects but also how effectively the projects are being done and how people are getting benefit from it and how it protects people when there is an emergency.

[Hispo]

I am from a country which realistically does not have many capabilities to respond to emergencies or natural chatastrophes, we suffered a double earthquake some months ago and it took literal days before we could start to properly rescue people trapped under the rubble. The national government was just not ready to process something as serious as a double earthquake.

I believe those things are common when comes to third world countries, our capabilities to respond to disasters is simply very bad and we have to try to solve problems with whatever we have on our hands at the moment.

[HelliumZ]

I live in a country where the government is failing to meet my basic needs, how can our country give importance to emergency issues again. In short, in a country where the government is gradually becoming separated from the citizens of that country, how can you give importance to the government's urgency? In our country, the law enforcement agencies are separated from the people, so it is impossible to get proper investigation and fair trial from them. The government now does not work without bribes, so it is impossible for you to get the necessary investigation and the right work at the right time from them. In other words, in a country where corruption from the grassroots level and widespread negligence of responsibility among government bureaucrats, you can never do anything properly.

[Obari]

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.

Just from the writing, I already know the country op is talking about but since might not be totally right about the country he might be referring to, then no need to mention.

I also saw the news of the car dealer who lost all the cars at his stand to fire but just as you already said, it can happen just in any other country trust especially if the fire is caused by fuel or in an environment with so much fuel around just like the car stand.

I also agree with you that the fire service are trying but truly they lack good funding and truly need all the support to function in the right capacity and I got to know that the fire service department is truly active of recent when my cousin went for his Saftety program.