Jeonnam Fire Department Rolls Up Sleeves to Enhance Evacuation Capability of Facilities for Vulnerable Evacuees

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Fire Headquarters (Chief Ma Jaeyoon) is promoting a project to improve evacuation capabilities at facilities for vulnerable evacuees.

According to Jeonnam Fire on the 8th, this project was initiated to enhance the evacuation abilities of staff and residents at facilities for vulnerable evacuees, such as elderly care facilities, in case of fire.

Jeonnam Fire has so far improved the evacuation capabilities of staff and residents through evacuation safety consulting, unannounced evacuation drills, and fire safety education, but has been seeking ways to ensure continuous awareness and education effectiveness regarding evacuation methods during normal times.

Accordingly, the plan is to repeatedly imprint evacuation methods by continuously displaying videos covering ▲the importance and methods of evacuation ▲location markings of fire extinguishers, emergency exits, evacuation stairs ▲and rules to follow during evacuation on large TVs and beam projectors within the facilities.

Along with this, the headquarters recommends that facility staff produce these videos themselves, and for small-scale facilities that find self-production difficult, the fire station will operate a video production support team to assist in creating videos for the target facilities.

Subsequently, during fire safety consulting and fire drills, the evacuation proficiency of the staff will be evaluated and guided.

Ma Jaeyoon, Chief of Jeonnam Fire Headquarters, stated, “Facilities for vulnerable evacuees carry a high risk of casualties in case of fire, so it is important to repeatedly learn and habituate correct evacuation methods.” He added, “Due to social distancing measures following the spread of COVID-19, the continuous screening of videos as a non-face-to-face education method will bring significant educational effects.”

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