Fire safety in winter cold old houses can not be ignored

At present, the country is carrying out special fire prevention and control actions in the winter and spring seasons, focusing on seven types of fire-prone, such as personnel-intensive, inflammable and explosive, “three in one”, group housing, old residential buildings, high-rise buildings, and ancient buildings of cultural relics. High-risk establishments will be rectified. Today, Wuhan Fire and the general public learn about the fire safety knowledge of old houses.

Why is the frequency of fires in older houses high and can easily lead to accidents? 32 points, Jiangsu Province, Changshu City Caojing District 2 74 fire occurred at 4:00 on July 16, 2017. According to the Propaganda Department of Changshu Municipal Party Committee, the fire building was a two-story brick-concrete structure. At the end of the fire clean-up, 22 dead were found and another 3 were slightly injured. The lesson was painful.

According to statistics, the frequent occurrence of old house fires is closely related to their housing structure, construction materials, lack of fire safety knowledge, weak awareness of fire prevention, and careless use of fire.

1. Brick and wood, brick-concrete structure is the "hard injury" of old houses. The old building materials used to be flammable and contiguous. Once the fire broke out, they could easily burn together.

2. Insecure family life. Kitchen work, improper use of gas, etc., especially the use of cooking oil cooking, if you continue to heat for a long time, when the temperature exceeds the point of spontaneous ignition of the oil, spontaneous combustion occurs.

3. Illegal use of electrical appliances. The double increase of household electrical appliances leads to a sharp rise in electricity consumption. If the maximum carrying capacity of the original electrical lines and switches is exceeded, it may easily cause fire or partial heating, which may cause fire.

4. Improper handling of small fires. Some people like to lie in bed or on the sofa to smoke, especially after drinking, the smoke is not finished, people have fallen asleep, cigarette butts are easily burned.

5. Privately pull wires. In order to solve the problem of power consumption in the room, some people changed the original circuit of the house without permission and charged the electric line with random wires. The wires did not have tube protection.

6. Children play with fire. Matches and lighters are littered. Children play in the fire to ignite clothing, quilts, paper scraps and garbage.

Old house fire prevention:

1. Regularly check all kinds of electrical appliances and lines in the home, not overloading the electricity;

2. Pay attention to the use of fire, manage household edible oil, alcohol and other flammable substances;

3. Do not smoke in bed and extinguish the cigarette in time;

4. Manage matches, lighters and other firelighters;

5. To prevent leakage of toxic gases and maintain indoor air circulation;

6. Equipped with fire extinguishers at home to keep the evacuation routes open.

This article comes from Jing Chu.