Gwangju Nambu Fire Station Conducts Winter Traditional Market Fire Safety Consulting

Gwangju Nambu Fire Station is providing training on fire safety and the use of fire extinguishers to traditional market merchants. Photo by Nambu Fire Station

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] Gwangju Nambu Fire Station (Chief Lee Jeong-ja) announced on the 12th that it conducted fire safety consulting at Bongseon and Mudeung Markets to inspect and prevent fire hazards during the winter season.

This consulting focused on Mudeung Market and Bongseon Market merchants and included ▲ fire truck ride-along experience ▲ fire extinguisher usage training and maintenance status ▲ autonomous fire brigade initial response guidelines ▲ removal of obstacles from fire truck routes ▲ crackdown and guidance on illegal parking around traditional markets ▲ verification of safe use of three major fire risk items such as electric heating pads, wood-burning boilers, and electric heating wires.

Lee Jeong-ja, Chief of Nambu Fire Station, said, "Through fire safety consulting, we aim to have stakeholders inspect and improve management methods themselves to raise safety awareness, so we ask for merchants' continuous interest to ensure that traditional markets remain safe from fire."

Meanwhile, the 'Safe Day (D-day),' designated as the second Wednesday of every month, expands the existing 'Traditional Market Store Inspection Day' to focus on large fire and casualty risk targets such as traditional markets, multi-use facilities, and facilities for the elderly and children, and will be intensively operated until April.

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