Gwangju Nambu Fire Station Implements Special Management for Repeated Non-Fire Alarms

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] The Nambu Fire Station of Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 27th that it will designate targets with repeated false alarms exceeding a certain number of times among malfunctioning fire facilities and promote special management of false fire alarms to prevent waste of firefighting resources and improve the reliability of fire facilities.

A false fire alarm refers to a situation where the fire alarm system, which detects smoke or temperature to notify the occurrence of a fire in a building, sounds an alarm due to a malfunction of the equipment even though no actual fire has occurred.

According to the analysis of malfunction statistics in Nam-gu district, the number of false fire alarm dispatches in the past two years was 296 in 2020 and 281 in 2021, a decrease of 15 cases (5.34%) compared to the previous year, but it still accounts for a high proportion of total dispatches.

Accordingly, to achieve zero false fire alarms, the Nambu Fire Station has been strengthening education for fire safety managers and related personnel by disseminating cases of malfunctions such as heat and smoke detection during food cooking and improper operation of alarm and notification equipment at 13 locations with two or more false dispatches in the second half of 2021. It is also continuously promoting fire facility maintenance and fire safety consulting.

Kim Haeng-mo, Director of Prevention and Safety, said, “Frequent malfunctions of fire facilities lead to a decline in the reliability of fire facilities and safety insensitivity. Through special management of repeated false fire alarm targets, we will raise the fire safety awareness of related personnel and strive to ensure stable maintenance of fire facilities.”

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