How many fire fighting equipment could be repaired or replaced by the amounts spent on government foreign travel? Once repaired, let's include professional maintenance.
Or just allow these to proceed to disrepair as the marine fleet.
I.e.: it's easier to beg for assistance than to correctly operate & maintain, hey there are many 'empty lot' mechanics that can train those interested.

When were the evacuation procedures been practiced by the nearby PMH, our nation's main hospital? Are there any evacuation drills? Fire drills? Hurricane winds safety controls? Storm surge danger controls?

The enormous fire as seen by the photos was a threat to all nearby structures including the nearby PMH which is a very old structure with hundreds of patients and staff. Thank goodness the winds and fire were going in the other direction.

Times like this you wonder where the Fillup party is, you know to Fillup the water

How is it you don't know where the Fillup party is? Didn't you vote for them in the last general election?

The government doesn’t care. The civil servants are wearing fuzzy slippers and sucking chicken bones. The firefighters are drinking Guinness and playing dominoes. This is the end result of all that.

Yup. Decades of successive corrupt politicians and their cronies in the private sector, whether they be of the PLP or FNM kind, are successfully transforming our nation into a failed state ....not too different from Haiti.

To the greedy wealthy political elite and the rapacious marauders they serve in the private sector who are still living in the Bahamas I say to you, BEWARE. Clearly the time is coming when whatever real or personal property the very wealthy own in the Bahamas, and whatever financial assets they have deposited in or held by financial institutions in the Bahamas, are going to to be taken away from them by the lawless and rebellious authoritarian communist regime destined to rise up with ChiCom provocation of the vast majority of disenfranchised, impoverished and angry people with nowhere else to turn.

From the spacious porch of my summer ranch in Wyoming over-looking the serene mountainous skyline, I am easily able to recognize that the seeds of an authoritarian communist regime, long ago sown by none other than the very corrupt 'Poodling' himself, are beginning to sprout and take hold as shoots of chaotic madness rising at an ever increasing pace.

Better off going back to bucket trains if this is the best the FD has at their disposal. Sad situation for sure. As with anything with these governments (they are both as bad as each other), sheer lack of proper maintenance and foresight rules the day. Wait until things break and something major happens then it's a knee jerk reaction to come in with 'new' stuff that you are just going to let rot all over again.

To many fires all over the Bahamas

Not to worry. Chester the Jester was over-heard telling Stumpy Davis that now is the time for government to sign a really fat juicy contract with a PLP preferred Bahamian bidder/vendor for the purchase of a dozen new fully-equipped fire engine trucks at a cost of at least $800,000 each, i.e., total padded contract price of about ten million dollars ($10,000,000).

And of course Stumpy Davis, seizing on the identified opportunity, spoke with his minister of health who suggested a half-dozen full size very costly fully-equipped ambulances be added to the proposed government contract.

This latest juicy government contract will soon be announced by Latrae Rahming.

**YOU THINKIN';** much along the same as the look pictured on a residents face, upon learnin' how *"was just within this past 94 days"* when the "first Lady CoP";  -- ordered a short-in-supply; Nassau **"fire truck"** to be sent to Freeport, to assist Freeporters; with their firefighting. -- ***Might be important enough so as to note, there's primary difference between a **"fire engine"** and a **fire truck** (likes sometin' do wit a ladder). -- Yes?

Plain and simple a massive failure by our government. Why aren't we better than this?

@ComradeJohnQ, short answer. -- Because they know the popoulaces' -- choose living under two colours of t-shirts. -- That nothing points to overthrowing. -- Yes?

Can't have FUNCTIONAL fire trucks in a DYSFUNCTIONAL society. People still gah vote PLP and FNM next time. Nothing - absolutely nothing - will change their mind.

What a debacle! A complete and utter failure! But no surprise here........leave it to the government to F things up!

where’s Birdie with the usual nonsensical defense? Birdie? BIRDIE?