
Undoubtedly, when such incidents occur, the normal course of action is to order an inquiry whose findings will take months and will rarely be made public and be forgotten about all too quickly. We will never know the cause of the fire, the building’s safety measures, or lack thereof, and what could have been done to prevent the incident. This must not be the case this time. The building’s safety measures must be thoroughly examined and if they failed to provide the proper safety exits, the owners must be taken to task for the precious lives that have been lost here. It is equally important to examine the role of emergency services and the equipment they have on hand as, in this case, it proved sorely inadequate. There is a need to learn from such tragedies in order to avoid them in the future.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 13th, 2013.
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