Fire Fighting In Zhejiang Shoe Industrial Area Is Frequent, Illegal Construction Of Blocked Fire Corridors And Difficulties In Rescue

At 11 a.m., the fire at Zhejiang global shoe factory in Ruian, Wenzhou, was finally extinguished. The whole fire fighting lasted for 12 hours, and nearly 200 fire officers and soldiers were mobilized.

Reporters learned that this is the second fire in the past half a month, two fires overheated area of about 7000 square meters, equivalent to the size of a standard football field.

According to statistics from relevant departments, there are more than 100 large and small fires every year in Xian Jiang Street, and 112 have been produced so far this year, and most of them are concentrated in the production of shoes, bags and small and medium-sized enterprises.

A reporter's investigation found that the fire was related to the unauthorized factory building, which had engulfed the fire protection space between buildings and blocked the fire passage. In addition, once a fire breaks down, it will collapse after the fire is overdue, and it will suppress the combustible materials such as shoes, cloth and so on, which will increase the difficulty of fire fighting.

　 200 Fire Services Officers and men

Fight 12 hours before putting out the fire.

More than 11 o'clock the day before yesterday, a four storey factory building in the Zhejiang global shoe factory in Ruian's Fairy street suddenly burst into flames.

The two fire engines of the Xian fire Street fire brigade first arrived at the scene. Captain Dai Puqi said, "the fire started from the first floor, and when it arrived, the windows of the factory buildings were all flaring up. We immediately called for reinforcements and used water guns to stop the fire spreading.

Subsequently, there were 26 fire engines dispatched by local authorities, and about 200 fire officers and soldiers came to the scene to put out the fire.

The reporter understands, the shoe factory that fire is Ruian shoe making backbone enterprise, building area 35 thousand square metre, have employee 1000 people, annual production capacity exceeds 10 million. The fire overheated area of nearly 2000 square meters, but fortunately no casualties.

The fire officers and soldiers at the scene introduced the main reason why the fire lasted for 12 hours before being extinguished, because the front, back and top buildings of the factory had illegal structures. "These illegal colored steel shed collapsed after overheating and pressed the shoe, cloth and other combustibles, so that we could not directly extinguish the flames."

　　 Relevant According to the Department, the four storey factory buildings on fire and fire were approved by the fire department.

　 The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Frequent fires in shoemaking industrial areas

Illegally build up fire passage and aggravate the fire situation.

Reporters found that more than 11 noon on 18 noon last month, from the global shoe factory only one street separated from a building built fire, and eventually spread into a burned area of 5000 square meters, burned 6 shoe factory fire.

Similarly, in the fire, 6 shoe factory buildings were built in violation of regulations, and a serious collapse occurred in the fire, leading to difficulties in fire fighting.

A staff member of the fire prevention detachment of the Wenzhou fire brigade said that after last month's fire, the local fire department organized the "Xian Xia Street" and the Ruian municipal government for the two time to hold a coordination meeting.

Several names Ruian City The fire officers and soldiers told reporters that the fairy street, especially the next industrial zone of industrial enterprises, can be said to be one of the most frequent fires in the whole city of Wenzhou. It is necessary to fire out the police once a day on average two or three days, or even two or three times a day in the summer or autumn and winter dry seasons.

"Some owners have built a large number of simple houses, occupying the fire protection space between the plant buildings, blocking the smooth passage of fire, and it will be terrible if there is a fire." A firefighter who took part in the local fire rescue said.

The local government declared:

Zero tolerance for potential safety hazards

Reporters learned that the fairy street is known as the "shoe market in Zhejiang Province", "China's luggage city", rubber shoes, luggage industry well-known throughout the country. There are 68 thousand migrant workers in the whole street and more than 1400 industrial enterprises, but more than 90% of the enterprises do not have fire fighting procedures, and there is a widespread phenomenon of illegal construction.

According to the person in charge of the relevant departments of Ruian, after the 18 day of last month's fire, the local government has begun to increase the intensity of the regional fire hazards and to carry out a special rectification program for fire hazards. In 3 batches, all the 40 villages in the street are shoemaking, bags and other enterprises.

"Not long ago, the fairy street has organized more than 40 business owners and village cadres to Wenling to learn about the renovation experience of the fire at the beginning of the year. A shoe factory owner said.

Yesterday, the Qianjiang Evening News reporter contacted Lian Huawei, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Xian Xia street, who was in charge of the local production safety work. But until the press release, he was still in a meeting. He said that the main content of the conference was aimed at the two fires.

"The fire safety work of Xian Xia street needs the courage to burn the boat." The key is to take a zero tolerance attitude towards some enterprises and workshops with hidden dangers, and try their best to dismantle them. According to local media reports in Ruian, Lian Hua Wei said so at a recent conference.

Shoe factory fire in Wenling

At 14:52 p.m. on January 14, 2014, a fire broke out in Taizhou's Dadong shoe factory in Taizhou, Chengbei street, Wenling, Taizhou. The fire area was more than 800 square meters, and 16 people died. In April 1st, the "114" major fire accident was investigated and identified as a major liability accident. The direct cause was the electrical line fault in the north half of the steel shed located on the east side of the shoe factory, and the flammable substance such as shoe box was ignited, causing a fire.

Subsequently, Dadong shoe factory legal representative, executive director and manager Lin Jianfeng, Dadong shoe factory shareholder and supervisor Lin Zhen Jian were detained for criminal investigation. 15 responsible persons of local government departments were handled by Party discipline or political discipline. Among them, Wenling mayor Li Bin, municipal committee, executive vice mayor Zhang Yongbing, vice mayor Zhang Wenyang administrative demerit punishment, give vice mayor Chen Gang administrative warning.