Recent and earlier fire incidents have clearly demonstrated some of the major Short comings in our firefighting capabilities along the length and breadth of the country. The recent fire incident in a hospital in India has added another dangerous possibility and dimensions to fire accident. We need to have a serious look at the capabilities of our fire services in this context. If the tele-therapy machine in the hospital had been damaged, the incident would have assumed a completely different tone and escalated into an even worse tragedy. The Mayapuri incident in our country is a very recent example of what can happen if a radiological device gets damaged. We need to examine whether our fire services have the capability to respond in a fire incident when radiological equipment has got damaged. Are the fire services trained and equipped to respond or even capable to contain and restrict the dangers till other experts arrive? There is more than an urgent need to ensure that the fire services are well equipped and trained to respond to all possible vulnerabilities resulting out of fire accidents.