Thursday, December 29, 2011

Little knowledge is dangerous


EARLY yesterday, our biggest city, Yangon, was being blazed by unusual fire. There are a lot claims saying their opinions. In my country, the authority used to point electrical shock as a reason of fires. In fact, it is generated by the owner of the initiating place to mitigate their offense. Unlike the past this time, the serial photos uploading online almost immediately and public able to access it. It probably make our authority a bit hard to express what they think as there are evidences available online. More thoughtful people upload their opinion or comments by judging on the photos. It benefit others by reading their judgement rather than reading state paper just saying wire shock every time.

We knew from the report that the fire started from the state warehouse in which a lot chemical stored. Those chemical substances make fire uncontrollable for few hours and even claim dozens dead and several dozens injured. Some photo suggest, our outdated firemen are helpless but seeing at blazing. The unexpected exploration did surprise them and they might have got distraught. I understand from some books that not every fire can be extinguished by water. There are other materials such as foam, chemical, to kill fire. Of course, such knowledge may not come cheap and I am not sure our fire-fighter are well equipped or not. Anyhow, it's regrettable to learn some fire-fighters were killed by exploration and fire. Perhaps, such fire is first ever experience for them. The poor is never good in any perspective. The poor society may not afford to equip our fire department well. It had claimed our people's lives when it come without prior notice like this incident.

Finally, the root of all problems back to authority. Why our authority allow people store such dangerous chemical amid residential quarters? Does it mean they don't foresee the potential risks like this? Does it mean they don't value our people's life? Does it mean our business men could do anything regardless of lawful or lawless. Does it mean there are some elite society that can do everything what they like. Does it mean the sign of corruption condition. There must be some people behind to take responsible for this tragic. I don't know if our authority will take necessary action so that our people may not encounter such tragic again in future. Sometime, knowing little make us our life extremely put dangerous. It's understandable that ordinary people are not aware of such thing. However, the authorities should have aware of such case because it may cause our people's life on the edge. Hopefully, our authority able to uncover the real reason of this incident as they are obliged to protect our people's life.

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