Why do rental rooms have frequent fires?

Rental house fire case:

1, November 18, 2017 18 am, Town, Daxing District Xihongmen new village company called "Auspicious edge apartment" Apartment major fire accident, leaving a total of 19 people were killed and eight injured.

Beijing Daxing Fire

2, at 4:16 on July 2017 Ri 32 points, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Changshu City Caojing area 2 a residential fire, the main building all burned an area of about 200 square meters, a total of 22 people were killed and three others wounded .

Changshu City Shaoshan Fire

3, April 2, 2016 around 1:55 in the morning, light village six groups of two in the Gangnam No. 5 rental housing fire, killing two people were killed, 22 people were sent to hospital for treatment, died after one person was killed .

Nanning City Village Fire

The above three fires occurred in the suburban area and the urban shantytown. The general layout of the buildings, the fire separation distance between the buildings, the fire lanes, and the fire water source settings are not in conformity with the “Code for the Design of Building Fire Protection”. Claim. Most of the rental houses are transformed from private houses to small-scale ones. The firefighting design audit and inspection are not required for the construction process. Therefore, the villagers set up the construction team themselves without any construction qualifications. The construction workers are migrant workers with no professional skills. In addition to their experience, they have almost no professional knowledge of infrastructure and the construction quality is worrying.

There are inherent fire hazards in this type of rental housing:

First, rental housing construction fire rating is low. Most of the rental houses were transformed from old-fashioned brick and wood structures, such as Grade 3 and Grade 4 fire-resistance buildings, or light steel was used as the skeleton on the basis of the original houses, and sandwich panels were used as the enclosing structure. The core materials were mostly Inflammable foam materials, whose junction form and fire rating do not meet the relevant requirements of the current specification;

2. The second step is to open the stairs. At present, most of the rented houses use open steel staircases. The spread of smoke and fire at the time of a fire is rapid. In addition, the poor fire resistance of the steel staircase itself seriously affects the safe evacuation of personnel and can easily cause casualties.

Third, more and more high-rise rental housing. Renting is developing from the third and fourth floors to the sixth and seventh floors. With the increase in the number of building floors and occupants, the evacuation distance of upper-level personnel increases, and the net width of evacuation of stairs is too small to meet the requirements for safe evacuation;

4. The tenants asked that fire separation was incomplete and the personnel density was too high. In order to obtain more benefits, the lessor will divide the house into different houses to be rented to multiple households. The partition wall between households uses combustible materials such as plywood and is not separated to the top. It is difficult to evacuate people in the event of fire and it is easy to cause “fires”. "Joint Camp";

The fifth is the lack of necessary firefighting facilities. Some rental rooms do not even have the most basic fire extinguishers. Once a fire can not be fired in an early stage, the lack of fire water is also an important reason for the small fires and floods in rental rooms. Sixth, illegal use of electricity, gas. Any increase in access to high-power electrical appliances, use air switches that do not have overload and short-circuit protection functions, line insulation aging, private pull disorder; free use of liquefied gas, gas, gasoline and other flammable and explosive materials in the house without protection, winter The use of carbon fire heating, mosquito repellent mosquitoes and other phenomena in summer has increased the rental room fire hazards.

Difficulties in fire protection and weak safety awareness among occupants

The main targets of rental housing services are migrant workers and migrant workers. Most of these people have low cultural quality. They have not been exposed to professional fire safety training. Their awareness of fire protection is weak. Their skills for escape and self-rescue are lacking. So easy to accident. Inadequate understanding of fire prevention leads to behavioral errors, especially in the dormitory, where many people live, cooking and resting in the same area in the same room, randomly stacking newspapers and magazines, lying in bed and smoking, using electric wire and electric heaters for a long time. High-power appliances, lack of safe electricity knowledge, resulting in frequent fire accidents of the dead.

Unknown party and lessee’s liability

Some landlords can rent a house as long as they live, and they don't care who lives or how many people live. Lessor and lessee are mostly concerned about terms such as lease duration, rent, and use of items in the house when signing a lease contract. They rarely touch on the fire safety responsibility of the house. This often results in failure to effectively implement the fire safety responsibility system. In addition, once the lessor rents out the house, he rarely asks for other things in the house except for the rent due at the end of the period. Naturally, the lessee is responsible for the safety of the house. The lessee, on the other hand, believes that the security of the house should be the responsibility of the lessor. In this case, a fire breaks out and it is very difficult to determine the responsibility. The two sides blame each other and evade responsibility. As both parties are generally individuals. It is very difficult for the fire department to impose administrative punishments on individuals. In addition, the leasing parties, starting from their own economic capabilities and their own interests, will generally require reconfirmation or administrative reconsideration of the penalty decision, which increases the fire department's law enforcement difficulty and work pressure.

Conclusion:

The prevention of rental housing fires needs to further strengthen the fire safety management of rental houses. Each street shall promptly organize the police station, residence ( village ) committee, etc. in the area to carry out on-the-spot inspections and verifications of the housing rental and operating conditions within its jurisdiction and register them. . When signing the lease contract, the lessor and the lessee shall sign the fire safety agreement together, clarify their respective fire safety responsibilities, and determine the main responsibility, so as to enable the management department to manage the lease. Do not lose control of leaking pipe.

In addition, to carry out firefighting propaganda is a powerful measure to promote the socialization of firefighting work and reduce the occurrence of fire. The content should focus on the residents of rental housing to learn safe electricity, gas, fire, oil and fire alarms, early fire suppression, escape and self-help, and other common sense, and often find and eliminate the fire hazards of rental housing. Use a variety of promotional methods, through video, advertising, slogans, etc. Popularize rental housing fire safety knowledge and basic skills of alarming, extinguishing and evacuation. Strengthen publicity, education and training of relevant people in the housing rental industry. To make it truly "three understandings and three meetings", that is to understand the danger of fire, understand the job responsibilities, understand the task division of labor; will report the fire, will save the initial fire, will organize evacuation. Improve the self-rescue ability of the rental staff.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.