Can I use your phone? www.yalemedicalgroup.org/stw/page.asp The slow emergency response is also likely to damage Kenya’s international reputation. Some witnesses said the first fire engines arrived two hours after the blaze started at 5 a.m. Because Nairobi’s municipal government auctioned off the city’s fire trucks to pay off its debt in 2009, privately-run fire trucks arrived to put out the inferno.