Source: CCTV news client
In a few days, it will be the 30th 119th Fire Day in the country, and this year's theme is "Implementing Fire Responsibility and Preventing Safety Risks".
Since 2009, for the first time, electrical failures have surpassed the careless use of fire, becoming the primary cause of fires that cause death; since 2016, more than 30% of the fires that cause human deaths are caused by electrical failures.
A fire in Changchun, Jilin Province, on July 24 this year was caused by an electrical line failure.
Electrical wiring failure Wedding photography city fire killed 15 people
Through the mobile phone shooting footage of nearby residents, it can be seen that black smoke gushes out from multiple windows in the wedding photography city, and the smoke quickly spreads outside the building with the fire, quickly engulfing the entire building. After the firefighters arrived at the scene, they fought the fire from the inside and the outside respectively, and at the same time used the fire ladder truck to rescue the trapped people from the outer window, and carried out the broken window to exhaust smoke.
After more than 3 hours of intense firefighting by firefighters, the fire was extinguished, and firefighters evacuated and rescued more than 100 trapped people from the building, and the fire eventually killed 15 people and injured 25 people.
Fire investigator Sun Zhen: The laying of electrical lines is very chaotic, and the direct laying of lines on a large number of combustible decorative green plants, resulting in the rapid spread of the fire after the fire, and the production of a large number of toxic and harmful gases, resulting in evacuation and escape is very difficult.
The reporter retrieved the public video video around the scene of the incident and saw that on the afternoon of July 24, a white smoke broke through the wall of the wedding photography city, and quickly turned from white to black, and the fire spread and burned with the smoke to the logistics company across the wall of the wedding photography city, and several employees rushed to escape and evacuate.
The smoke quickly spread outwards, and after 2 minutes, the entire building was engulfed in smoke and fire. After investigation, it was determined that the fire was caused by the failure of the lighting line in the upper part of the wedding photography studio to ignite the surrounding combustible materials.
The fires in wedding photography cities around the world still exist to varying degrees
In recent years, due to the fire caused by the failure of electrical lines is not uncommon, the reporter with the fire supervisor in Jilin Songyuan, Fujian Ningde and other places to visit the investigation saw that similar to the wedding photography city, studio such places, lighting, hair dryers and other electrical equipment more, the place placed in the wedding dress, decoration and decoration materials and other combustible materials, fire safety risk is higher.
Songyuan City Fire Rescue Detachment Comprehensive Guidance Section Chief Wu Zhenxing: This kind of decoration is combustible, this lamp is close to it, if this lamp is overheated for a long time, this is a safety hazard, there is a risk of fire. Then you see how to rearrange it, and the lights and combustibles must be kept at a safe distance.
The fire supervisor took a plastic flower for ignition testing, and found that as soon as the fire source was approached, the plastic flower quickly burned and produced a large amount of smoke.
Many of the wedding photography city's electrical wiring were not pipe-threaded as required. During the inspection, the fire supervisor found that many wedding photography cities were equipped with insufficient number of fire extinguishers.
Wu Zhenxing, chief of the comprehensive guidance section of the Songyuan Fire Rescue Detachment: Will the fire extinguisher be used?
Wedding Photography City Employees: Fire extinguishers will not be used.
Wu Zhenxing, chief of the comprehensive guidance section of the Songyuan Fire Rescue Detachment: Fire extinguishers will not be used, then what to do when you are in danger, your fire extinguisher has now failed, and your pointer is in the red area.
Fire supervisors teach employees on the spot to operate and use fire extinguishers correctly. Fire supervisors inspected another wedding photography city and saw that the safety evacuation instructions here did not meet the requirements and the indoor fire hydrants were obscured.
Indoor fire hydrants are obscured in a wedding photography city in Ningde, Fujian Province. During the inspection, fire supervisors also found that many smoke detectors in the wedding photography city were sealed by the outer cover.
Zeng Shiyi, fire supervisor of Ningde Fire Rescue Detachment: After your renovation, you did not take it off in time, which will cause the smoke detector to not be used normally.
The evacuation channel is not smooth and becomes a common disease in film and television shooting places
In addition to the wedding photography city, in some art photography venues, film and television shooting bases also have lighting, props, decoration and decoration materials and other fire safety risks, the reporter with the fire supervisor found in the inspection, escape evacuation channels are occupied, the lack of safety evacuation signs and other phenomena in art photography venues, film and television shooting bases such as places are also common.
At an art photography venue in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, fire supervisors found plastic green plants and plastic flowers piled up at the escape exit.
Jiao Chong, fire supervisor of the Nanjing Qinhuai District Fire Rescue Brigade in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province: The evacuation channel is forbidden to pile up these debris, because once a fire occurs, this evacuation channel is for people to evacuate, and you will immediately send someone to clean it up. The evacuation channel must be kept open, and some debris cannot be placed, because these combustible materials are easy to catch fire here. In the event of a fire, sealing off the safety exit is a major reason why people cannot escape.
When the reporter inspected the outside along the evacuation exit with the fire supervisor, he saw that the entire escape evacuation channel was equipped with lockers and stored various props and photographic equipment.
Jiao Chong, fire supervisor of the Nanjing Qinhuai District Fire Rescue Brigade in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province: You should put it in a separate room, not on this evacuation channel, once a fire occurs, these are all increased fire loads, a large number of flammable materials piled up, will cause a lot of smoke.
During the visit and investigation, the reporter found that the evacuation passage was not smooth and became a common disease in film and television shooting places, and in a film and television shooting base in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, the fire supervisor saw that the safety exit was blocked by the screen and some items.
The person in charge of the film and television base in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province: This is a safe passage for the roller shutter door alone, even if there is a power outage or a fire, people can evacuate from this door.
Tang Qi, deputy captain of the Nanjing Yuhuatai District Fire Rescue Brigade: Before the safety exit, you must keep it open, and there must be no obstacles within 1 meter 4 before the safety exit.
During the inspection, it was also found that many safety exits of the film and television shooting base did not set up evacuation signs as required.
Tang Qi, deputy captain of the Fire Rescue Brigade of Yuhuatai District, Nanjing: Such a large area is the area of your studio photography, and the safety exit sign should be hung, and the evacuation guide sign on the ground should be added. If an emergency really occurs, you can know in what direction to evacuate, to the safety exit, and this evacuation guidance sign is to be self-illuminating, or it can be energized and illuminated.
In addition, fire supervisors saw multiple shooting booths and production sites with understaffed fire extinguishers.
Tang Qi, deputy captain of the Fire Rescue Brigade of Yuhuatai District, Nanjing City: You have to match the dry powder fire extinguisher, just near it, which means that it will be more convenient to use, and it is best to be equipped with some carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, because it is an electrical device.