Apart from ashes, the recent fires in Limassol district (23-25 July) have exposed organizational and structural problems in fire prevention and fire fighting, long known, yet unresolved. This Club has written about them in an article published in The Cyprus Weekly newspaper on 1 July 2016 (see pdf). The President and the Finance Minister have changed, the approach on the critical issues remains unconvincing. Action need be taken to remedy understaffing, stipulate coordination between cooperating departments, and modernize the pre-emption campaign. Because it is not sufficient that life goes on, we must demonstrate that we can come out of a catastrophe wiser.