Gyeonggi Fire Headquarters to Expand 'Special Fire Investigation'
[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters is expanding special fire inspections.
On the 16th, the Gyeonggi Fire Headquarters announced that it has completed the installation of the 'Fire Safety Special Inspection Team,' a dedicated unit for cracking down on illegal fire-related activities, which was first established nationwide in April 2019, at 35 fire stations across the province.
The Fire Safety Special Inspection Team is composed of the Fire Special Investigation Team, Fire Patrol Team, and Fire Judicial Team.
From 2018 until June of this year, the inspection team conducted inspections at a total of 367,442 locations and took action on 98,633 defective facilities. Additionally, they carried out various planned crackdowns and investigations targeting 6,487 sites, including large construction sites, cosmetics manufacturers, and violations of separate contracting for fire facility construction, detecting 1,255 cases (19.3%).
In particular, the inspection team is focusing on cracking down on the 'three major illegal acts'?closure or damage of evacuation and fire prevention facilities, illegal parking, and others?to prevent multiple casualties in advance.
The inspection team will also promote fire safety information surveys targeting a total of 452,511 locations by 2025, including complex buildings, facilities for the elderly and children, factories and warehouses, and hazardous material facilities in the Gyeonggi area.
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Lee Sang-gyu, head of the Gyeonggi Fire Headquarters, emphasized, "Since human-caused disasters caused by ignoring safety regulations are recurring, strengthening the normative power of safety laws to ensure compliance with safety order is more important than anything else," adding, "We will continue to use the Fire Safety Special Inspection Team to strongly punish illegal acts that threaten the safety of residents according to fire-related laws."
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