Abstract
The proportion of residential building is the largest in all buildings. With the development of urbanization, residential building fires are at high momentum. The paper lists the residential building fires and the number of casualties’ proportion to total fires from 2011 to 2014, analyzing the high incidence causes of the fires and casualties and putting forward suggestions and countermeasures including carrying out fire safety education to improve the fire safety awareness of residents, fulfilling responsibility to enhancing fire safety management capabilities, perfecting fire apparatus to develop fire safety environment and enhancing public awareness of fire safety, equipping evacuation equipments to promote response ability to deal with disasters etc.
Highlights
The proportion of residential building is the largest in all buildings
Some residents still connect wires randomly, throw about cigarette butts and irregularly use fire, electricity and gas in daily life; some residents use a lot of flammable combustible materials in the process of home decoration, which increases the fire load; some residents store excessive hazardous chemicals at home; and some residents set off fireworks and firecrackers in the residential areas at any time, directly leading to the residential building fires
2.4 Poor urban residential building fire infrastructure construction in China In China, there were no strict requirements on the building fire protection infrastructure by related fire prevention specifications and regulations during their construction since some old urban residential buildings were built earlier, which results in the deficiency of fire fighting hardware facilities
Summary
Due to the lack of the national fire safety education and not widespread popularization of fire science popularization, insufficient awareness of the importance of urban residents on fire safety, people do not attach importance to or do not have the opportunity to learn fire safety knowledge, unable to use the fire-fighting equipment and do not know how to escape in case of fire5[4]. Some residents still connect wires randomly, throw about cigarette butts and irregularly use fire, electricity and gas in daily life; some residents use a lot of flammable combustible materials in the process of home decoration, which increases the fire load; some residents store excessive hazardous chemicals at home; and some residents set off fireworks and firecrackers in the residential areas at any time, directly leading to the residential building fires It will raise the proportion of casualties of residential building fires which are composed of vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children at home who have poor ability to dispose of the fire and escape
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