Investigation of Fire Safety Effectiveness of Markets Bulding in Bauchi Metropolis Bauchi State Nigeria

The research aimed to investigate fire safety effectiveness in Wunti market building in Bauchi Metropolis.In order to determined its effectiveness in markets building.The research problem overtime there are numerous fire incidence that were occur frequently in Wunti market which resulted to oof lost lives, properties,rased down shops and worth millions of naira.The research gap is to ensure enabling environment where equipment provision, effectiveness and safety is adequate.Data were collected through the use of questionnaires and field survey to analysed the results by using SPSS 5 -Likert scale, descriptive statistic i.e. the frequency, percentage, standard deviation, mean and tables was used in analysing the results collected, each questions from questionnaired were three hundred and forty sex questionnaire was distributed. Two hundred and eighty were able to accessed and returned where sixty six were not returned which one hundred and eighty goes to male and one hundred goes to the female i.e. 52% and 28.9% respectively.The research results found that there is least adequate of firefighting equipment provision in markets building inBauchi metropolis, it was concluded that half of the respondents has witness fire incidence frequently in the markets and no adequate provision is made to address the issue.In conclusion the identify equipment availability were found some present and absent. Hence, some that were absent and not functions, further researcher should include some were not functions and absent to see that they are performing in the future. We recommended that the fire safety effectiveness should not be ignore for any reason because fire may occur at any time. The fire service should organized fire safety training for both shops — owner and shop — occupants and make it compulsory for everybody to attend so that in the event of emergency they will be able to escape from risk of injuries, loss of life and properties. However when this and other measures are put in place by the shops -owners and properly managed the results of fire incidences will no hand reduce.