What to do if a fire occurs during Qingming Festival

"Qingming" is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. During the Qingming Festival, according to the traditional customs of the Chinese people, they go out to worship their ancestors, sweep tombs, and go outing to pay homage to their deceased relatives. Nowadays, although many people have abandoned the thousand-year-old habit of burning paper money in terms of memorial content, and have replaced the previous memorial methods with wreaths and blue flowers, there are still a large number of people who have a special affection for burning paper money and "silver ingots". bell. This kind of memorial ceremony is very dangerous and can easily cause fire. As a fire department, we can only repeat the old saying: worship in a civilized manner and stay away from fires.

It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival. Seeing things and thinking about people is another season of nostalgia. Tracing relatives and expressing condolences is originally a matter full of warmth. However, around Qingming Festival, the temperature rises and the wind is strong and dry, which has always been a period prone to fires. From the perspective of climatic conditions, the Qingming Festival is the season when the spring breeze blows. Flowers, plants and trees are in the stage of recovery, and dead grass and branches are everywhere in the barren fields. These substances with extremely low ignition points are often distributed in clusters of trees or buildings. Once they are attached to burning residues such as paper money or scattered sparks, they can easily cause large-scale fires under the influence of wind; from the current tombs Judging from the distribution situation, they are basically located in the suburbs of the county, and many are located in mountains and forests. Citizens have frequent sacrificial activities, and the dead wood in the mountains and forests is dry and flammable, which can easily cause fires.

Taking Taizhou as an example, fires caused by people’s uncivilized sacrifices during the Qingming Festival have been common over the years, forming a disharmonious scene of “fires abounding during the Qingming Festival”. Some of these fires were caused by people setting off fireworks and firecrackers during sacrifices and lighting paper "silver ingots" without paying attention; some were caused by people who did not completely extinguish the fire after burning the "paper money" and "silver ingots", and the remaining fire ignited the dry fire beside them. Leaves and branches cause disaster. The consequences of these small details and problems are often not money or material, but the lives that directly cost people a heavy price. The lessons of the past are still vivid...

Looking back at the fire: 2008, This is the first year that Tomb-Sweeping Day is listed as a national statutory holiday. More and more citizens are taking advantage of the holidays to go out to pay homage to their loved ones. Around the Qingming Festival, a forest fire broke out around the Tiantai Funeral Home in Taizhou. Fueled by the wind, the fire continued to devour the trees on the mountain and gradually spread to nearby houses. The personal and property safety of nearly a thousand people in many surrounding natural villages suffered. Facing a severe test, 9 people were trapped on the mountain and the situation was very urgent. As soon as the rooftop fire brigade received the alarm, it quickly dispatched a fire truck and 8 officers and soldiers to rush to the scene. With the assistance of the public security police and surrounding people, after more than 4 hours of hard work, the fire was finally effectively controlled, and 9 people were killed. Only the trapped people survived.

As the Qingming Festival approaches in 2009, forest fires caused by careless tomb sweeping in Taizhou Xianju are increasing day by day, especially a fire that occurred on a tomb hill in Guanlu Town on April 2. , the burned area is estimated to be more than 100 acres, and one person died during the fire-fighting process. In order to learn painful lessons, investigate the responsibility for fires, and effectively sound the Qingming fire prevention alarm. On the second day, a fire dispatch team composed of Xianju Brigade fire dispatch personnel and local police came to Guanlu Town in the rain to investigate the cause of the fire. Based on local customs and on-site investigation, the investigation team preliminarily speculated that the fire was caused by candles igniting the paper hanging from the top during sacrifices. Under the influence of the wind, it floated into the dry firewood and grass, eventually triggering a large-scale wildfire. However, this is only a preliminary speculation and cannot be concluded. Further investigation by the investigation team found that there were remains of fireworks and firecrackers in front of a grave, so it was not ruled out that sparks from fireworks caused the wildfire.

Coincidentally, forest and lawn fires are gradually increasing around the country around the Qingming Festival, and some urban areas have introduced administrative detention penalties for worshipers.

On March 21, 2009, a fire broke out when residents in Xiangshan District, Huaibei City, Anhui Province accidentally burned paper at a grave. Tian, ??a mother and her daughter, went to a hillside near Huangli to burn paper. Due to strong winds, sparks caused the fire. The fire quickly spread due to the wind and ignited the surrounding dry grass, causing the fire. Fortunately, it was discovered and put out in time, so it did not cause greater losses, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

In the past, during the Tomb-Sweeping Festival every year, fire accidents caused by burning paper on graves occurred frequently in the Xiangshan Forest District of Huaibei City. Sometimes, multiple starting points would appear in a forest at the same time. Firefighters and soldiers were alerted to the alarm and had to climb over the mountains and ridges, overcoming thorns and thorns, which was extremely painful.

According to statistics from the Yantai Fire Department, from 0:00 on April 4 to 3:00 on April 6, 2009, 44 fires broke out in the five districts of Yantai, including mountain fires, trees, lawns, and cemeteries. Fires accounted for 28 cases. The number of fire alarms was much higher than usual. The cause of the fires was mostly ritual fires. Due to the timely putting out the fire by the fire department, no major losses were caused.

On April 3 last year, the Shenyang Fire Brigade warned citizens that due to the changeable climate in spring and dry weather, it is strictly prohibited to burn incense and paper during sacrificial activities. Violators will be subject to administrative detention. The fire department stated that if citizens burn incense and paper when sweeping graves in densely forested suburbs, it is very easy to accidentally cause a fire due to flying fire. In order to ensure fire safety during the Qingming Festival, the fire department has installed additional fire-fighting equipment in cemeteries, ancient buildings and other places in the Qipanshan area, and has stepped up patrols. Those who burn incense and paper will be severely investigated and punished, and will be punished with administrative detention for 5 days in accordance with the law. In serious cases, they will be held criminally responsible.

Small fires can lead to big disasters. This year’s Tomb-Sweeping Festival is coming. How to do a good job in fire safety and security during this year’s Tomb-Sweeping Festival to prevent and reduce the occurrence of fires? Be prepared for danger in times of peace to avoid similar accidents. Fire hazards are extremely difficult to guard against. It is urgent and effective measures must be taken.

In order to effectively strengthen fire prevention and fire-fighting work during the Qingming Festival, the Taizhou City Fire Brigade Development Zone Brigade actively took effective measures to comprehensively deploy fire prevention and fire-fighting work in the entire district during the Qingming Festival to ensure that the fire situation during the festival is kept under control. Stablize.

First, it is necessary to carry out in-depth fire safety inspections focusing on places for worship activities and crowded places. Closely integrate the Qingming Festival fire prevention work with the current Shanghai World Expo security, spring fire prevention and other work, and work with relevant departments to carry out centralized inspections of large-scale public memorial activities and cemeteries, martyrs' cemeteries, temples and other places where incense, candles and paper money are burned, and effectively formulate Fire safety protection plan, strictly implement the fire prevention inspection system, equip fire-fighting equipment, and strictly prevent fires caused by accidental use of fire during sacrifices and tomb-sweeping activities. During the three days from April 4 to 6, the main leaders of the department should personally lead the team, concentrate the police force, act in a unified manner, and resolutely investigate and deal with fire protection violations and fire hazards in accordance with the law. For those that are difficult to rectify for a while, they should supervise the adoption of watch-and-die measures. . At the same time, it is necessary to cooperate with safety supervision, culture, education and other departments to conduct centralized inspections of tourist attractions, cultural relics and ancient buildings, stations and docks and other places where people gather, and actively cooperate closely with the forest fire prevention department to organically integrate urban and rural fire protection work with forest fire prevention work. , to "prevent domestic volcanic fires together", promptly supervise and eliminate fires, and strictly prevent "domestic fires from going up the mountain" and "mountain fires from entering villages and cities".

The second is to carry out extensive publicity and education and strive to improve the public's fire safety awareness. On the one hand, it is necessary to broadcast fire safety knowledge and precautions during the Qingming Festival in densely populated places to effectively enhance the fire prevention awareness of the whole people, and to post slogans and hang fire warning banners in prominent places where mass sacrifices and tomb-sweeping activities are gathered to educate the general public. People are prohibited from using fire on windy days and in the wild to prevent fires caused by burning paper, burning incense, lighting wax, setting off firecrackers, etc.; on the other hand, make full use of fire propaganda vehicles to enter rural areas, because rural people have weak awareness of fire prevention, and farmers are taking advantage of this opportunity. While friends were going to the market and buying festival necessities, they carried out fire protection publicity, and used the video equipment of the multi-functional fire publicity vehicle to focus on publicity for rural people going up to the mountains to offer sacrifices. At the same time, we actively coordinate radio stations, TV stations, websites, newspapers and other media to open columns to popularize fire protection knowledge and strive to improve the public's fire safety awareness and self-prevention and self-rescue capabilities.

The third is to strengthen combat readiness on duty and make various preparations for fire fighting and rescue. According to the characteristics that fires mostly occur in rural areas and relatively remote areas around cities during the Qingming Festival, it is necessary to strengthen the maintenance and upkeep of fire-fighting equipment to ensure that vehicles have sufficient oil, water, electricity, gas, and fire extinguishing agents, and that personnel are on duty.

Actively make fire-fighting plans, enhance the ability to deal with various emergencies, and organize the squadron to carry out in-depth "six familiarity" with cemeteries and rural areas where cemeteries are relatively concentrated in the jurisdiction, to be fully familiar with water sources and road conditions, and to ensure that in the event of a fire, we can Arrive at the scene quickly and take timely measures.

Qingming means light and wise. With the rapid development of the times, new non-polluting and non-hazardous sacrificial methods such as online sacrifices, home sacrifices, tree burials and sea burials are gradually becoming more and more popular. Planting trees, online memorials, flower sacrifices and other methods can also express one's feelings for the deceased relatives. commemorate. Civilization has become a trend, while life style has improved. The fire department encourages the general public to use safe, civilized, healthy and environmentally friendly forms of sacrifice, and try not to burn paper money, set off firecrackers, or burn incense candles. It strongly advocates offering a bouquet of flowers, planting a sapling, playing music, and web pages to deceased relatives. Memorial ceremonies and other sacrificial methods can eliminate fire hazards from the source and prevent fire accidents, making the Qingming Festival truly "clean and bright".