Dear Editor,
I am very sorry for the losses of the occupants of the Sharon’s building mall. Will the building insurance compensate these occupants? Will the government compensate the occupants? Will the Guyana Fire Department compensate the occupants? There will be no help from either. So much losses these individuals have to endure, which could have been avoided by just the mandatory requirement of having fire sprinklers installation protection for commercial buildings three stories and higher. A fire sprinkler system can be supplied by the water that would be available for the washroom facilities; a fire sprinkler system extinguishes a fire at the beginning and this suppression time is enough to contact the fire department, aiding the firefighters to enter the building and confirm the extinguishing of the fire.
I would like to ask the government and the fire department, who are responsible for us the citizens and property owners and business owners small or large of Guyana, why haven’t you implemented this simple and most effective method of protection into law for commercial buildings? Is the government and fire department waiting until there are deaths from fire to make the fire sprinkler system mandatory? If it is because of not knowing how fire sprinkler system works, I would be grateful to assist for this will be to the benefit of my country and our citizens. Fire sprinkler systems do not have to be manually operated, you do not need someone to see or acknowledge a fire for it to work, it is automatically designed that in the ignition of a fire, the temperature rises and would pop the thermometer tube which will release the water that would spray as tiny droplets and extinguishes the fire at its beginning. The developed countries have this as a mandatory requirement, don’t we want to develop too, or we will live “come so, do so” and not care about protection. I say all of this because I am a Fire Victim and I know how it feels to lose everything. Please, Mr. President and the Guyana Fire Service, make it a mandatory requirement of fire sprinklers protection for commercial buildings three stories and higher or where necessary.
Sincerely,
Vishul Ishwaridin
