From ancient times to the present, fire prevention has been a crucial issue for people's livelihood. During the National Day holiday, let's go to Fengjing Ancient Town, Jinshan District, and travel through time and space to see how fire prevention was carried out during the Republic of China.
No. 124, Production Street (Dongzha Street), Nanyan, Taiping Bridge, Fengjing Ancient Town, Shanghai, was the location of the Fengjing East District Fire Administration during the Republic of China. This is the only relatively complete site of a modern fire protection agency in Shanghai. It is now a cultural relics protection unit in Shanghai.
During the National Day, the number of tourists in tourist attractions increased, and the Jinshan District Fire and Rescue Bureau specially filmed and produced a fire safety propaganda video for cultural relics and ancient buildings in tourist attractions, so as to arouse the attention of tourist attraction staff, merchants and tourists to the fire safety of cultural relics and ancient buildings in scenic spots, and guide everyone to do a good job in fire prevention and build a solid fire safety defense line in the scenic spot.
When you open the red door, you will see several large pieces of old firefighting equipment in the hall: a hand-pressed dragon called a "foreign dragon" that appeared in the early 20th century, a mechanical "pump" before the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, and a wheeled fire truck that was used after 1950.
Most of the buildings in the ancient town are made of wood, with many flammable and combustible materials, and the building density is large, and there is a lack of fire separation, so it is easy to spread quickly once a fire breaks out. The century-old fire policy reflects the importance that people attached to the fire safety of ancient buildings during the Republic of China.