Gyeonggi Fire Department to Implement Strong Spring Fire Prevention Measures Until May

Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters is preparing and implementing strong fire prevention measures for the spring season until next month.

The Gyeonggi Fire Headquarters will first conduct joint safety inspections with related organizations such as the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation targeting facilities used by vulnerable groups, such as senior centers. In addition, to eradicate the chronic practice of ignoring safety, surprise special fire inspections will be conducted on multi-use facilities such as retail stores, saunas, cinemas, and wedding halls, focusing on emergency exit closures.

For small-scale lodging facilities, fire safety information surveys will be conducted, followed by on-site guidance visits by fire station chiefs. Strengthened on-site inspections of construction sites subject to fire facility construction notifications and education to reduce carelessness through meetings will also be promoted.

To prevent forest fires, special fire inspections of forest recreation facilities will be conducted along with strengthened crackdowns on illegal disposal of cigarette butts and unauthorized burning.

Lee Hyung-cheol, head of the Gyeonggi Fire Headquarters, stated, "Gyeonggi Fire is strengthening preventive activities to fundamentally block large-scale fires and reduce casualties, and is striving to establish a proactive disaster response system."

Meanwhile, according to the Gyeonggi Fire Headquarters' analysis of fires that occurred over the past five years from 2015 to last year, the fire occurrence rate in spring (March to May) was 30.6%, higher than in winter (27.9%), summer (21.4%), and autumn (20%). Fire deaths ranked in order as winter (120 people), spring (91 people), autumn (65 people), and summer (44 people).

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