When the fire alarm sounded in their residential apartment in Abu Dhabi earlier this month, Thomas Plant, an American military adviser for the Abu Dhabi Apache helicopter programme, wife Renata and their 15 year old son struggled through a jumble of obstacles littering the three flights of stairs down to the building’s fire exit-only to find that it was locked. Plant kicked the door open and escaped with wife and son.
Abu Dhabi’s General Directorate of Civil defense conducted fire safety audit in 5300 buildings including 1105 houses out of the total of 10000 odd buildings in the capital city.
Findings: poor fire equipment, no fire alarms, faulty central gas systems, emergency exits blockage Frequent false alarms wherever alarms were installed, resulted in people ignoring the alarms.
Design, maintenance of this important safety system and people’s response in emergency are inadequate in most parts of the world.
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