Is it legal to close the fire escape during the epidemic?

Fire exits should not be locked during an epidemic.

We can actively prevent and control the epidemic situation and set up necessary protective roadblocks and equipment, but we must set up movable roadblocks regularly and assign special personnel to manage them. The village roads and internal roads in residential areas must have enough width and space for fire engines to pass. While strictly controlling the epidemic, please also leave some space for the "life channel".

The property company shall ensure the smooth passage of fire engines, and shall not occupy, block or close the passage of fire engines. These regulations are mandatory and prohibitive. In case of violation, the fire department has the right to order it to correct and impose a corresponding fine.

Importance of fire escape

Fire exits, including fire truck exits, evacuation exits and exits, are channels for people to rescue and evacuate trapped people, and are important prerequisites for quickly fighting fires, saving people's lives and property and reducing fire losses. However, due to the public's lack of legal awareness and safety awareness, the relevant units are not in place to manage vehicles, and the phenomenon of occupying and blocking fire truck passages has been repeatedly banned.

Stairs, corridors, gates, side doors, emergency signs with safety exits, residential exits and other common fire exits all belong to fire exits. In recent years, especially the situation that private cars are parked indiscriminately, occupying and blocking fire exits has become more and more prominent.

Carry out semi-closed and fully closed community management mode, supervise vehicle registration, increase the construction and planning of parking lots and temporary parking spaces without affecting fire exits, and adopt strict positioning management.

Take technical defense measures such as installing cameras, assign personnel to conduct inspections, and relevant departments clarify management responsibilities and strengthen law enforcement and punishment measures; Public security fire control institutions should strengthen supervision; Property management, neighborhood committees, police stations and other grass-roots departments earnestly fulfill their fire safety responsibilities. Law enforcement must be strict, and offenders must be prosecuted.

Accountability for dereliction of duty. According to the Notice of the Fire and Rescue Bureau on Further Defining Several Measures for Fire Truck Passage Management, illegal acts are included in the credit system.