Gyeonggi Fire Department to Implement Four Major Fire Safety Strategies This Year... 'Including Fire Extinguisher Distribution for Semi-basement Houses'

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The Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters has decided to reduce the annual average number of fire-related deaths in the province from 74 to 67 by 2026 and is preparing and implementing various fire safety measures.

On the 4th, the Fire and Disaster Headquarters announced that this year it will promote 26 key tasks under four major strategies: ▲creating a fire-safe environment ▲focused safety management of fire-vulnerable facilities ▲public fire prevention promotion and education ▲securing fire safety infrastructure.

First, to create a fire-safe environment, the Fire and Disaster Headquarters will strengthen safety management by providing fire safety education and basic firefighting equipment to fire-vulnerable targets such as elderly care facilities and facilities for the disabled who are vulnerable during evacuation. In addition, following last year, campaigns to create safe workplaces and consulting for fire-vulnerable small businesses will be expanded.

Fire extinguishers and residential fire safety equipment will be distributed to about 31,000 households in semi-basements, multicultural families, and other fire-vulnerable groups, and systems will be supplemented by identifying and improving laws and regulations that are difficult to apply or unreasonable in the field.

Along with this, customized safety management will be promoted for fire prevention enhancement zones such as traditional markets, which are fire-vulnerable facilities, and safety grades will be classified and managed considering fire history, firefighting facilities, and building structures.

In particular, starting this year, a ‘Gyeonggi-do Fire Safety Investigation Team’ consisting of 40 firefighting officers and external experts will be formed to intensively inspect 574 fire-vulnerable sites including national core infrastructure in the province.

Furthermore, fire-related laws and regulations, illegal subcontracting, and violations of firefighting construction business laws such as unauthorized qualification lending will be intensively cracked down on for ultra-high-rise and underground interconnected complex buildings and industrial waste treatment companies.

For public fire prevention promotion and education, citizen participation events such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, the 119 firefighting children’s song contest, and the Fire Safety Children’s Yard will be held, and awareness will be raised through sending letters regarding changes in hazardous materials-related systems and accident prevention.

In addition, to support rapid permits and safe processes in the Gyeonggi region’s advanced industrial complexes, the ‘Swift Fire Civil Complaint Support Center’ will be opened and operated for three years until 2026.

Cho Sun-ho, head of the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters, emphasized, "We will strengthen safety management by promoting customized fire safety consulting by region and target, and respond fully to prevent fire damage by establishing a constant on-site response system for fire safety key management targets."

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