Pugh Pugh Barley Mcgrew

Rather a spectacular little blaze at the oasis centre up the road ended with the entire building being gutted, it's funny how according to the Gulf news or any of the papers the fire brigade are always on scene in a few minutes but seem to spectacularly fail to control these big fires.
Now you could draw a couple of conclusions here, either they are really crap or perhaps the few minutes might be a slight exaggeration, who knows.
I've seen a couple of fires here and in both cases the response was very slow though that could have been caused by the rubber neckers blocking the roads, the brigade seem to have quite a bit of kit and once they got there it was bit chaotic but eventually the fire was out, training and a better call out system might work, perhaps the new 999 system will help.
The worry is that the population here is growing fast and the centers of population are moving, a big fire in the Marina area could really stretch the civil defense and could get very nasty especially if the roads got backed up with sightseers.