According to the Fire Service Department, home fires account for around 30% of all fires in the country. The causes of fires in the home are many and varied, and can be found in places that we are aware of, or hidden in places that we are not. So what exactly causes a home fire? What can we do to prevent them in our daily lives?
What are the common causes of home fires?
Human-caused fires:
Human causes account for the vast majority of home fires. Unsafe human behaviour is one of the most important factors leading to fires, such as unsafe use of fire and gas, throwing cigarettes, pulling wires in combustible canopies, and installing lights indiscriminately. According to the statistics on the number of fires, the number of fires caused by human beings accounts for about 60% of the total number of fires each year. According to statistical analysis, man-made fires can be broadly divided into the following types.
1.Kitchen Fire Carelessness. When using gas stove, LPG stove, pots and pans are too full of water, heating water overflow extinguished flame, while the usual release of gas, LPG and air mixed with an open flame explosion combustion; family frying refining, frying pan overheating fire: cooking burned straw ash, firewood ash, coal ash and other things arbitrarily dumped outdoors, and the fire in these ashes did not completely extinguished, once the windy weather, the sparks brought to outdoor straw.In windy weather, sparks can be carried outside onto straw stacks or sawdust on the roof, which may ignite into a fire.
2.Life, Lighting with Fire Careless. Urban and rural residents in the summer with mosquito or mosquito incense, such as inappropriate placement of mosquito incense or electric mosquito incense in a long-term working condition, and incur fire; power outages and some farmers with candles when lighting carelessly, come after forgetting to blow out the candle or lit candles too close to combustible materials, burning spread into a disaster.
3.Smoking Carelessly. Throwing cigarette butts at home, resulting in unextinguished cigarette butts igniting combustible materials at home; smoking after drinking or sleeping in bed or on the sofa, before the smoke is extinguished people have fallen asleep, resulting in burning bedding, sofas, causing fires; as some residents smoke when using flammable and explosive materials at home to cause fires.
Characteristics of Home Fires.
1.Easy to Form A Large Area Burning. Single-storey dwellings or corridor dormitory buildings, as well as shantytown residents, often a fire in one family, spill over to four neighbours, forming a large area of burning.
2.The Disaster Spreads Quickly. As a result of the development of the residential buildings, vertical space, chimney role is very obvious, vertical traffic formed by the lift shaft, stairwell, as well as pipe wells, rubbish wells and many other "shaft", in a fire will become the main way of vertical spread of fire, and the speed of vertical spread of fire than the horizontal spread of 4-5 times faster, therefore, high-rise residential disaster, if not timely control, very If the fire is not controlled in time, it can easily spread and develop into a large body fire.
3.Serious Damage to Property. Residents\' homes are limited in size. In the limited space, a large number of household appliances, furniture and clothing are concentrated. There are also many flammable decorative materials, once a fire occurs, it is not easy to evacuate the materials, and the loss of property is serious.
4.Easy to Cause Casualties. The elderly, the sick, the disabled and children are often the victims. If you live in a high-rise building, it is even more difficult to evacuate people.
5.Difficult to Put Out. The concentration of combustible materials in residential buildings and the poor ventilation make it difficult to fight fires due to the large amount of smoke generated.
If you live in a high-rise, the fire-fighting facilities and equipment are limited by the height of the building, which makes the work even more complicated. As can be seen, home fires are often characterized by fierce combustion, rapid extension, and easy loss of life. If not controlled effectively and in a timely manner, it can also affect the neighbours.
Therefore every home, if fitted with a smoke alarm, will help to detect the first signs of a fire and help to put it out in time, even if they are not at home and people receive a remote alarm, they can notify their neighbours or call the police to deal with it. This will prevent the danger from occurring and spreading.
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