Fire safety in ancient city urgently needs to be improved

On the evening of April 14, at about 19 o'clock, a fire broke out near Chongren Lane, the ancient city of Lijiang, Yunnan Province, becoming the third fire in Lijiang Old Town this month. Since the spring, dry and dry weather is a season of frequent fires. Lijiang ancient city has suffered a series of fires. Let us inevitably worry about the safety of the ancient city. The ancient city can withstand several times this kind of destruction. The ancient city fire safety work needs to be improved.

The ancient city became a place of high fire

Since spring, most areas in Yunnan have entered dry seasons and fires are prone to occur. On the 6th of this month, a fire broke out at a shop in the Longquan Community on Shuhe Street in the Old Town of Lijiang, damaging 10 pavings. On the evening of the 10th, the former site of the Old Workers' Cultural Palace on the Minzhu Road in Xincheng District in the old city caught fire. The area burned was 64.8 square meters, causing direct property losses of about 7,000 yuan. Yesterday, on the night of April 14th, a fire broke out on Qiyi Road in the ancient city area. The fire was very heavy and the fire had been extinguished, causing no casualties. The trend is still in the statistics.

In fact, it is not only the ancient city of Lijiang. In recent years, many major tourist sites such as the ancient city of Lijiang have experienced major fire incidents. On January 11 this year, a fire broke out in Shangri-La’s Dukezong Ancient City; Guizhou’s Zhenyuan County reported Jingxiang Township’s Jingwei Village this year. On the evening of January 25, a fire broke out and one of the “Sanxiong Townships in the North” was a fire in the ancient city of Zhengde, on the night of February 18, 2010; the ancient city of Phoenix was on fire on the morning of April 19, 2013...

It is worth reflecting on the frequent fire in the ancient city.

These cities with ancient buildings are not only tourist attractions, but also a treasure house of historical and cultural heritage in China. We should not know how to cherish it after we have lost it. We should profoundly reflect on it, increase vigilance, and do preventive work in advance. The reason for this is mainly that large Shangri-La (Lijiang, Shangri-La and surrounding areas) areas belong to seismic belts, and local traditional buildings have seismic requirements. Therefore, the building structure is dominated by wood frames. In fact, the ancient city of Lijiang, including other ancient cities in China, has hidden fire safety hazards. The main phenomena are:

First, in the original planning of the ancient city, the roads were very narrow, and almost no fire pipe network was available. Fire engines are not available in most parts of the ancient city.

2. Generally, the weather in the highland area is dry, especially in winter. There is often no precipitation for three or four months, and it often causes strong winds. In addition, everyone has the habit of burning firewood and heating charcoal in winter, and the fire risk is high.

Third, the circuit aging phenomenon is common in ancient cities, and some main lines and even the external insulation skin have weathered. Due to the high density of buildings, most of the wires are directly hung on the wall. In addition to the excessive development of ancient cities in recent years, there are basically power overload phenomena in ancient cities.

Fourth, the management level of the fire control department needs to be improved. In the reality that the fire hardware facilities in the ancient city are insufficient, software (such as fire inspection, training, emergency measures, etc.) is not enough.

V. The residents of the ancient city and the merchants have insufficient fire-fighting awareness, lack of fire-fighting knowledge, and no emergency emergency fire-fighting capacity.

6. The flow of people in the ancient city is complicated and tourists have weak fire safety awareness. Visitors to the ancient city to play, do not understand the local fire conditions, fire escape programs are not familiar with. The usual sense of fire prevention is also relatively weak.

Ancient city fire safety construction work points

Based on the above points, from the perspective of the government and fire control authorities, first of all, we should improve the construction of ancient city fire-fighting facilities as soon as possible. Strengthen the training of firefighters’ awareness and fire prevention knowledge of ancient city residents and merchants. Strengthen the management of firefighting details and formulate more detailed and scientific fire management rules.

The residents and merchants of the ancient city should strictly follow the fire control regulations when repairing and renovating the building at the outset, so as to eliminate the fire hazards of the building itself. The most important thing is to increase vigilance in daily life and management, and to eliminate bad living habits that cause fire. In the absence of firefighting hardware facilities, a strict fire alarm system is set up to detect the fire in time to control the fire.

Because of its special historical reasons, the ancient city is not destined to be as scientific in planning as modern urban construction. There are too many innate factors in firefighting. Therefore, the protection of the ancient city requires the residents and merchants of the ancient city to take more responsibility. If every resident in the ancient city, each merchant can have a strong fire-fighting awareness and enough fire fighting knowledge, it can maximize the fire risk.

Fire-fighting measures in Fenghuang Ancient City: Take the lead in adding "fire artifacts"

After the fire broke out in the ancient city of Phoenix, Hunan on April 19, 2013, the ancient city of Phoenix comprehensively raised fire prevention measures and took the lead in adding “fire prevention artifacts”. In the event of a fire, the entire city was broadcast and residents and tourists were evacuated in time.

This “fire artifact” is the fire emergency broadcasting system. The ancient city of Fenghuang is the first ancient city in China to introduce this system. It is a multi-functional, comprehensive outdoor stereo broadcasting system that integrates FM radio broadcasting and fire emergency broadcasting functions. At present, in the downtown area of ​​the ancient city, 110 FM audio installations have been installed at each of the major street outlets and commercial establishments, and the outdoor FM active speakers have been installed as the broadcast terminal of the system.

Wandering in the ancient city area, you can not only hear the program and safety knowledge of FM94.4, a live broadcast transmission platform, but also listen to government emergency documents and relevant policies and regulations. Once a fire accident occurs in the ancient city area, the radio station again It can be transformed into a fire emergency broadcasting system to provide communication security for fire scene personnel evacuation, fire rescue, fire suppression, and fire extinguishing power dispatch. While effective fire safety publicity can also be used to guide evacuation routes and passages in the process of firefighting and rescue. The role.

At the same time, the system integrates the “fire-fighting report” complaint telephone “96119” with a radio live hotline to facilitate the public’s supervision and reporting of fire safety violations, and facilitate the timely reporting of fire emergency broadcasts in the event of a fire.