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Disaster preparedness costs time, money and other resources.
When people prepare for emergencies, they start with those *most* likely to hit them, depending on local context of course. Airports naturally assume air-crash. And rail companies/stations cover for passenger-train derailment, and rarely chemical-spills. Hostage situation? Even more unlikely to happen, so no preparation for that.
Could it be that airports always assume "plane-crash" scenarios, and that is exactly what they conduct annual disaster-preparedness drills for?
Just wait for an (armed) hostage situation, and see confusion in 4D (Die Hard 2 anyone?).

As for the portable extinguishers:
- the FIRE ALARM directions posted all over advice people to exit the building ASAP. This directly conflicts with *stop, grab fire extinguisher, kill small desktop fire*.
- in a pinch, a surprisingly large number of people will not know/remember how to operate the gadgets anyway.
So when a fire breaks out, even a small one, everyone takes off and waits for the fire trucks, usually tens of minutes away. BAM!!! Small dustbin fire becomes a 7-floor monster.

I still wonder about the piped extinguisher system though. No water?

</2cents>

Now for a *real* disaster-preparedness expert to chip in.




On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Maxwell Sabwa <maxwellsabwa@yahoo.com> wrote:
Fire detectors may be there, but I think the big issue is preparedness of staff and emergency services. I personally know the nairobi fire chief and know for a fact that between nairobi fire dept. And JKIA, they should have more than 6 fire trucks and that there should be extinguishers in the terminals but the unrehearsed reaction was what caused the tragedy

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Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Fire at JKIA

Interesting.

However, I still ask: Aren't there fire sensors at JKIA? If yes, did
those sensors fail to activate the extinguisher system?

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