According to statistics from the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior, as of June this year, among the 5,208,078 households across the country that should be equipped with residential fire alarms (residential alarms), the installation rate has reached nearly 100%, reaching 99.17%. However, in the "Residential Fire Prevention Countermeasures 2.0" plan, the Fire Department analyzed the main causes of death due to evacuation in 2024 fire cases. The factor of installing alarms and automatic fire alarm equipment is still as high as 59.46%. In addition to highlighting that there are still 177,603 households across the country that refuse to install fire alarms, the firefighting unit has proposed six major countermeasures including "improving the intrinsic safety of household electrical equipment, wires, etc." to actively help old residences and elderly residents to save their lives.
Officials from the Fire Department revealed that since electrical factors are still the main cause of fires, they first proposed "improving the safety of household electrical equipment and wires." By identifying the causes of fires in electrical appliances and wires, they proposed improvements, promoted the installation of overload protection devices that passed CNS inspections, and called on people who will use indoor wiring in their homes for more than 20 years to hire qualified electrical installation contractors to update them.
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Secondly, for the 65-year-old elderly who have difficulty escaping, we should build a living environment that is less likely to catch fire and easier to escape, educate the public to use flame-proof articles and products, and propose improvements based on the causes of fires to strive for timely escape when a fire occurs. The Fire Department also found that fire prevention publicity relies on vivid disaster examples and techniques. In recent years, Instead, we will create scientific cases of people successfully evacuating and evacuating through the installation of residential alarms. Through the media, neighborhoods, campuses and communities, we will remind various places of the main causes of fires such as stove fire safety, safe use of electrical appliances and leftover ignition (cigarette butts). We will also increase the intensity of fire prevention publicity through marketing methods such as home visits.
In addition, we continue to popularize residential fire protection equipment such as residential alarms, formulate arson prevention countermeasures, and expand the development of fire prevention propaganda organizations such as fire prevention volunteers and charity groups to enrich fire prevention education through various channels.
The report of the Audit Department pointed out that the North City Fire Department will continue to allocate 2 million yuan to purchase 7,142 residential alarms in 2022, and the promotion of the installation of residential alarms has been effective. However, it has been about 13 years since the Fire Department promoted the installation of residential alarms in 2010. , the installation rate reached 98.34%. Among them, more than 70,000 households, or about 15%, have batteries equipped with residential alarms that have exceeded their service life. It is urgent to strengthen publicity to the public for regular testing and follow-up maintenance work, and to improve early warning to reduce the occurrence of residential fire casualties.
Unnamed fire officials revealed that domestic firefighting units assist in setting up households and installing residential alarms. In recent years, audit units have criticized that nearly 15% to 20% of residential alarms have exceeded their 3 or 5-year lifespan, which may reduce the effectiveness of fire prevention. In addition to recommending that the public wipe and clean residential alarms regularly, press the test button, and purchase battery replacements or replace the entire set, firefighting units will also assist in testing and replacement when conducting home inspections and visits.
