Abstract
Generally, to improve regional safety against fire, indispensable strategies are not only the reinforcement of the governmental ability, but also the strengthening of the cooperative relationship between government and non-government, which means volunteers, residents, and so forth. Needless to say, effective strategy should be varied depending on the actual situation in the subject area. Bangkok, our study area, is no exception. It was reported that the fundamental problems to first be resolved in Bangkok were not only a shortage of fire stations, but also an uncooperative relationship beetween governmental and voluntary firefighting. It has been difficult to solve these problems all at once because of deep-rooted chronic problems. In the previous study, although a certain strategy that ought to be useful for realizing a cooperative interpersonal relationship was proposed, the validity of the proposal has not yet been ascertained. Accordingly, in this paper, we would like to put an approach based on this strategy into practice in light of the facts, and to verify the effect of this implementation. In fact, we investigated quite carefully a number of negotiations, meetings, and questionnaire surveys. Finally, it is considered possible to establish a cooperative interpersonal relationship between both parties using the above strategy.
