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Building collapses usually make headlines as brief news updates: the number of victims, the duration of the operation, the equipment used. Much less attention is paid to what happens in...

The collapse of an eight-story building in Ngong, Kenya, claimed the lives of four construction workers. Throughout the day and night, the USAR team from Nairobi worked tirelessly at the...

On 7 May 2026, Kenya will take a significant step forward in strengthening its national disaster response system with the official inauguration of a specialised Urban Search and Rescue (USAR)...

“I prayed, because that was all I had left when the well collapsed on me,” recalls Robert, who was pulled out of a buried well after 14 hours. He is...

On 1 December, a group of firefighters in Kiambu were preparing for another training session, this time in the classroom after several weeks of intensive field drills. Their plans changed...

“The Kenyan fire service was recently where Poland was in the 1970s,” says Tomasz Traciłowski, a Polish instructor who has just returned from Kenya. Until not long ago, firefighters in...