Looking at the Predicament of Community Fire Prevention from the Fire in Nanjing

At 15 o'clock on April 18 and more, near Nanjing Dan Fengjie Juan ongoing comprehensive improvement in the district, in the process of scaffolding, the wire suddenly caught fire and spread the home, while firefighters put out the fire, but the cause of the fire Difficult to determine, the relevant compensation is difficult to give, highlighting the typical community fire predicament. Here I will talk about the typical significance of the fire and its potential impact on future community fire protection.

Like the Shanghai high-rise building fires, this fire was part of a comprehensive government-led renovation project and it is likely that the government will compensate. However, this fire is very typical, exposing the short rib of our country's firefighting system. In other words, our country's firefighting system can do nothing about this matter, and can only compensate passively, highlighting the plight of the system.

In general, the new community will certainly emphasize the reserved space of the line during the construction process, and reserve wind and rain protection equipment for the line. However, these work did not take into account the construction of the old community in Nanjing (at the time the building standards were insufficient), so there is a natural fire hazard. Jiangnan's climatic characteristics are dominated by a warm and humid environment. Under this condition, anything placed in the open air is perishable, let alone a thin layer of rubber insulated wire. Therefore, the hidden danger of firefighting is buried in the design phase, but it cannot be blamed. At that time, the compliant building was not compliant at the moment. We cannot say that the standards at that time were wrong, but that the current understanding is more advanced. So why is there a danger of fire now? Because managers don't have the expertise to understand, there is no economic incentive to correct them and there is no standard to follow. Therefore, this is a common and typical blind spot for community safety hazards, and it requires a lot of professional cooperation to make up for it. However, our country lacks a minimum system to complete cooperation and compensation.

Why can't managers correct this hidden danger on their own? Because our country's firefighting system is not professional. Persons engaged in fire fighting are separated from those engaged in fire prevention, or those who engage in fire extinguishing, lack relevant fire prevention experience and are therefore not good at fire prevention work. Many people think that fire protection is very simple, because Chinese university education rarely teaches "Fire Dynamics." Without knowledge of fire dynamics, it is difficult to see such factors as ignition, propagation, fire fighting, alarm, and escape. Professional team. If the whole society thinks that fire prevention is easy, this is a misunderstanding of fire prevention work and it is one of the manifestations of the lack of social development. China always likes the tactics of the sea. It is believed that someone who has been fighting fire for 2 years (the current system only allows 2 years) understands fire prevention. This is ignorance and misunderstanding of fire fighting. Fire protection needs to understand the fire, and understanding the fire requires fire dynamics. The vast majority of firefighters in China are back standards and fire engineer licenses based on their work experience. They are still a long way from real fire engineers. Because of the lack of quantitative knowledge of fire, they do not understand how to identify and adapt fire prevention. Standards are always limited. Misfiring is often the place that standards do not take into consideration and people's qualities are needed to judge. For this reason, China’s institutions have not done a good job of relevant arrangements.

Why can't managers solve this fire hazard on their own? This is another issue for insurance companies. Due to the relatively late development of China's insurance industry and the lack of real concern for fires (the large-scale fires experienced by the United States in the early stages had no experience, they could not understand the dangers of fire). Therefore, current insurance rarely pays attention to home fire insurance (only 7% of the insurance premiums related to fires in the United States ). Therefore, they are invisible to this category of fire hazards, and they cannot see it (fire control system monopoly), so they There is not enough economic incentive to promote follow-up improvement of fire codes. Firefighting is a means for local governments to manage safety issues. Therefore, many local governments in the United States maintain a large number of firefighters. They are the most experienced people in the civil service and have the best treatment, so they can maintain long-term safety and security. The high mobility of domestic firefighting work has led to the lack of professional expertise of any government department to recognize the risk of fire. Therefore, although China is a small government (small burden), it is also a highly non-specialized (low-paying) government. This type of government system lacks a professional team, but it has to bear all the management mistakes (that is, the country is the largest insurance company, who makes you manage it wide?) This complex situation is the biggest dilemma of fire work. The government buildings of the U.S. government are all managed by professional teams, and the so-called GSA companies come forward to manage them. In our country’s government building, we think that everyone is a fire engineer. Aunt Chaoyang District knows fire problems. Everyone can manage safety issues. This is a despise, slack, and omission of safety work. The biggest problem is always the system, not the fault of one individual. The rise of the great power depends on the system, not the hero.

Many people have discovered the problem of cable wear. In theory, fire protection regulations can improve maintenance and reduce the incidence of failure. The problem is that the professional associations that establish safety regulations are state-run. They have no incentive to promote the renewal of the regulations. Therefore, no one can put forward a little opinion on the current fire hazards of the old communities. The key is that this is a standard issue and requires professional associations. To lead. The professional society cannot take the initiative to come forward. We can only wait for disasters to promote professional associations to manage. Professional associations are a kind of democratic system in the United States. In China, they become a centralized system and become a minority game. This is a cultural phenomenon that we cannot change.

Specific to this case, although the reform of the community is led by the government, it is still inseparable from the risk analysis, approval, and management of the professional team. Because the government departments lack sufficient professional strength, the fire department lacks sufficient professional supervision, and the construction department lacks sufficient professional support. Therefore, the predicament of this kind of community fire can occur anywhere, in any community, or on anybody. This is a nationwide fire-fighting dilemma. Because our firefighting is not professional, there is no professional team to ensure the safety of the community. You don’t look at some people’s insults about fire protection issues. Domestic fire engineering education was only after 2002. They are still far from making fundamental changes to the safety of the community, so it’s likely that the person with the biggest discourse is the least knowledgeable. Firefighting. There is no way to distinguish between knowing and failing to understand fires. This is a dilemma for the specialization of state management. A true fire engineer needs a college degree, relevant work experience, and the ethics of the association. Will several people in China be able to do this? China's professional firefighting work has a long way to go.

Appendix: News Excerpt

At 15 o'clock on April 18 and more, near Nanjing Dan Fengjie Juan ongoing comprehensive improvement in the district, in the process of scaffolding, the wire suddenly caught fire, then spread to the residents of the home. After the fire-fighting vehicle was put out of the rescue, the homes of two households were almost burned to the ground.

A sudden fire in the renovation of an old Nanjing community

There is no dispute over the cause of the fire. The current street rescues thousands of yuan per household.

At 15 o'clock on April 18 and more, near Nanjing Dan Fengjie Juan ongoing comprehensive improvement in the district, in the process of scaffolding, the wire suddenly caught fire, then spread to the residents of the home. After the fire-fighting vehicle was put out of the rescue, the homes of two households were almost burned to the ground.

Wire caught fire into residents' homes

Yesterday, the reporter came to the residential area in the area of ​​the incident, and the workers were busy with scaffolding in front of each building. The only building without scaffolding was surrounded by many residents. "This building is a building that was damaged yesterday. The scaffolding was also removed overnight." An aunt told reporters. In front of this building, there are traces of being burned everywhere.

Before the network box on the first floor, the maintenance personnel of the communications company are replacing the broadband line. "They are all burned out. Now we have to replace all of them. Our users are temporarily unable to get online." On their side, there was a charred broadband line. A power pole on the side has been tilted black and the wires have also been burned. On-site power company staff are busy changing, "The wires here have to be replaced. Some residents cannot supply electricity at home. We have been busy since the 18th ." A staff member said.

Talking about the fire, residents have come up with mobile phones to reporters. As can be seen from the video, the wires next to the scaffold hit sparks and the sound was loud. Then the sparks spread rapidly along the wires and burned from the front of the second floor to the side and rushed into the window and burned into the residents' homes. Residents introduced that at the time, in order to save the fire, the entire community stopped for a night and the life was greatly affected. In addition, there is no damaged home in the fire floor, and it is also outside the night.

The first floor of the second floor was burnt and was flooded

The reporter walked into Room 201 , Building 14 , which was filled with a pungent scorching smell. The living room was full of debris, the birds in the cage and the goldfish in the fish tank had already been roasted, and the bedroom was terrible. The mattress, the quilt were burned and the wall burned, and the clothes in the closet became coke. "I made the cosmetics business. This shipment was all scrapped." said Dong Weining, who rents the house. In the afternoon he went out to work. When he returned, the fire was burning for half an hour. “The family has been burned out and has suffered heavy losses. There are no exchanges of clothes, there is no place to wash the shower, and it is really a disaster. There is no way to solve the problem of eating accommodation,” Mr. Dong said. And the room 202 opposite it is not much better, the fire is from the kitchen, which is filled with a strong smell of gas, the living room is also burned light. "We have already called the gas company and we haven't come yet." The homeowner was extremely anxious.

Compared to the fire on the second floor, the first floor is a flood of Jinshan. “At the time the water gun fired, my family was not able to follow. The water drips from the ceiling like a rain. The lampshades are full of water, and the floor is soaked. Beds, TVs, and furniture are blistered. We are newly renovated. It's too distressed,” said homeowner Ms. Chen Meng. The third floor room, although not affected, but the windows outside stairs, racks, air conditioning unit was also destroyed.

The cause of the accident has been disputed by parties

Yesterday afternoon, with the exception of the fire building, other residential buildings basically resumed power supply. However, cable television and broadband have not fully returned to normal. For the cause of the fire, residents think that it is caused by irregular construction of scaffolding. “The wires in the old residential areas are inherently messy. Wires, telephone lines, broadband lines, digital television lines, and so on are bundled together. Scaffolding is all steel pipes, and these wires are worn off to expose the copper wires inside. Conductive ! ” said one resident, who asked not to be named. Many residents in the vicinity believe that the sparks on the wires were caused by the crossover of scaffolding and wires.

For such accusations, the person in charge of Xinjiekou Street did not agree. "Originally a small fire, the power supply company telephone no more than an hour to pull the brakes, fire engines did not dare to water, only a big accident. In addition, these wires are old wires, the original copper wire was exposed Our construction is based on requirements."

The construction company of the power supply company took photos and pointed out that the scaffoldings that had been placed on the stairs had been pressed onto the wires. “This is because the construction is not standardized and the scaffolds are all steel. It is easy to break the rubber outside the wires on the wires. The construction party should communicate with the power department and they did not communicate.The power supply department has stipulated that after receiving the report, they must arrive at the scene within 45 minutes and turn off the power supply of the community.But the utility poles do not belong to their area, and they call the street lights to cut them off. The wires completely cut off all power."

Because of different opinions, we decided to wait for the accident identification to come out and judge again. Yesterday, the fire department had already entered the site to collect evidence, and it will soon make an assessment.

Residents want streets to solve difficulties

From 18 pm after the accident, damaged some residents choose to go to apartments for the elderly, while others are checked into the hotel. “Our children are still in school. We don't even have a place to study. We pay for our hotel and we buy food outside ourselves. What time is it?” Room 101 owner Chen Meng said that he hopes the street can Solve their practical difficulties.

The staff responsible for community renovation in Xinjiekou Street said that the current street has come up with a preliminary emergency plan. First contact the insurance company and go to the residents' home to fix the damage. Secondly, the district civil affairs department arranged a salvage grant for 1,000 yuan per household affected households . Other plans must be determined after the accident has been identified. For such processing results, the residents are not satisfied. The multi-family family feels that they are not the wrong party. So many people in the family have used up 1,000 yuan for a few days. It is hoped that the streets will at least arrange accommodation problems. For this request, the street does not respond, but emphasizes that the results of the identification come out again.

This article comes from the Jinling Evening News.