Dear Editor,
The Guyana Fire Service has spent millions buying new machines but they never seem to get to any fire on time, and when they do arrive, they usually start looking for water. The water which they carry is only sufficient to put out a fire in a fowl pen. Right away GWI is blamed for not having hydrants. When our colonial masters were here, we had hydrants. There were weekly tests by the fire brigade to all the hydrants around the city. When last did the Guyana Fire Service do such exercises? A visit to the fire stations will find many of the personnel simply waiting for a fire call. What else are they doing? Repairing hoses? This cannot be so for at fires the hoses leak like geyers, hence water is wasted. Has the Chief Fire Officer ever thought of having a tanker similar to those used by the gasolene companies which are used for moving thousands of gallons of gasolene to places like Berbice? Surely the fire service could have a tanker connected permanently to a tractor which would follow the fire brigade to a fire. It should have sufficient water to douse the fire while the officers look around for a hydrant or canal from which to get additional water.
Where have the fire hydrants gone? Have senior members of the fire service ever visited some of the scrap iron dealers’ yards to check for these hydrants? Have they ever raised their voices calling on the government to implement more drastic measures to deal with metal thieves? GWI is used as a scapegoat, but that utility has a global job and unless they get help from the citizens they will always have to carry the can.
Finally, I think the fire department needs a complete overhaul. We have the materials here; we don’t have to import more engines. What we need are people with a sense of responsibility.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
From NA to Corriverton there is ONE fire hydrant. Painted bright red. Opposite Eversham PO.
What hydrants? Do any exist in GT?
Never seen any!!!
That’s because they have the same colour as old iron and the pavement…
Good question. They checked it,if they can fing it or know it’s location, when there was a fire.
Stop dreaming, What fire hydrant we have in Guyana? Afew feet of hoses and a couple of nearby trenches will do the job. The only major fire that I knew was JP Santos in New Amsterdam. After 100 years. This is a good safety rate and no life lost. Spend money for the sick, invalids, and hungry.
Look opposite JP Santos, and those areas near the selling, and opposite the ice factory. Do you see all those matchstick shacks of buldings,just waiting for someone to get careless with some fry oil frying fish.Keep the D4 buldozers handy to level up the place and relieve citizen’s eyesores.
You live too long in USA, JM. NA fires include the following
- half of Pitt Street businesses
- Globe cinema at stelling road
- A business place near A. Ally’s
- A building near the old hospital
- A house in Philadelphia St
In Rose Hall Town, burnt down
- An old cinema near Scots school
- Dharry’s and Raghunandan’s businesses
- Mad Menzes house
- And plenty other houses here and there
Just contact the NA Fire station for more details. Or do a search for fires in Berbice Guyana. Eg.
http://stabroeknews.com/news/ten-homeless-after-two-fires-in-berbice/
Berbice needs another fire station and more hydrants than the lone ranger one at Eversham.
Jagdesh you you seem a REAL BERBICIAN or a CANJE-MAN. If these fighters really wanted to put out the fire they could have gone down to the N.A stelling a ‘STONE THROW’away and how far away is FERRY BRIDGE frpm crarlotte street CANJE CREEK and CANJE RIVER always FULL WID WATA even if it SALT or SWEET these in survice only ‘GET HEAD FU WEAR HAT
The next time they will check it is when a big fire rages in one of the tumbledown cities, only to find it is not working.
Guyana is a big place, first off you guys need more fire stations, the hydrant issue needs to be addressed but also GWI needs to provide the service because when I was there the water went off more times than I can count. The houses there are mostly wooden structures, I was the MOST supprised person to see that you guys have a wooden hospital. I believe that caught fire already. The idea of using the tanker to tansport water is a great idea, but affixing it to a tractor would make no sense because how fast would it get there…
Firegod, you seem to know more about fire fighting than we do.The point is that in thuis particular situation CANJE PEOPLE/NEW AMSTER knows what they are talking about. If the hydrates do not work there are other alernatives Ceaser,Jagdeshand Xiu-Balgobind sounds very much like Berbicians who live very close to N.A or knows New Amsterdam very well. Where the funeral home is concerned, which(Adult)Berbician does not know where it is?
It is sad when in a modern world a water company has to turn on the water whenever there is a fire. It seems that there is no forward thinking in Guyana. If research is done over the last 20 years it will be shown that lack of adequate water supplies affect the work of the fire service. In a land where there is so much water this is a travesty and is beyond belief. I wonder how many executives it would take to turn on the water at the local water authority.In a country with so many wooden buildings you would think that forward thinking persons in the fire service would have a plan to access water. It seems that the only plan is the wait for water from the non functioning hydrants. I wonder if the economic cost has ever been calculated ad this could all be avoided if effective fire fighting systems be in pace. Guess I am looking for utopia.
Sorry for the error in spelling.
Who cares?We all make spelling and grammatical mistakes….The SENSATION IS TOO MUCH!!!!! once you can express yourself that’s all that matters. We all have the opportunity to AIR our VIEWS in our own way and MISTAKES are LIABLE just keep on BLOGGING!!!!!
CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG!! ‘FIA REEL DUS HALL WATA OUT TRENCH AN DRAI-NA’ Why couldn’t they drive to the N/A stelling to get water? Thes guys belong on the top of a DECK of CARDS
GUYANA is one of the best place to learn fire fighting and Best Well trained Firefighter in the hold world .Read and learn about driving around to find water and saving lifes .