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Have we taken lessons from JKIA on safeguards against fire outbreaks?

Woolworths House went up in flames, barely four years ago. Did you take any lessons – at home, at work, everywhere? Except in the forest, fires don’t just happen. They are caused

Few of us remember the fire that threatened to gut down Kencom House in the heart of Nairobi in 1985. Fewer still know about the recurrent fires at the International House in 1979. Even far fewer know about them. Worse still is whether any lessons were taken from these fires. And were any lessons taken from the fire that destroyed Nakumatt in Woolworths House in the Central Business District of Nairobi, just a few years ago? Do we learn anything out of tragedy?

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