Another tall building caught fire, and it burned through from the bottom to the top.
In the early morning of February 23, the smoke of the Nanjing high-rise fire had not yet dissipated, and on the evening of February 24, a high-rise residential building in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, broke out again, also from the ground floor to the top floor.
Two high-rise fires in succession, without a little buffer time, make us who live in high-rise buildings really worried and restless.
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The fire in Nanjing burned extremely fiercely.
According to the official report, the fire in Building 6 of Mingshang Xiyuan Community, Yuhuatai District, Nanjing City, was caused by the electric bicycle parking place on the ground overhead layer of the building, which was at 4:39 a.m. on February 23, 2024, and the fire was extinguished at about 6 a.m. on the same day, and the on-site search and rescue work ended at 2 p.m. As of 24:00 on the 23rd, the accident caused a total of 15 people to be killed, 44 people in the hospital**, of which, 1 person is critical, 1 person is seriously ill, and 42 people are in minor condition. 516 people were accommodated in five hotels.
Picture: Internet) 15 fresh lives, including a family of five who were tragically wiped out, have become cold numbers. More than 500 people who obviously have families, but they don't know when they will be able to go home or if they will be able to go home.
Similar to similar circulars in the past, while reporting these figures, the relevant departments in Nanjing still inevitably explained how the leaders attached importance to and how they were saddened. The combination of these messages and the numbers is extremely glaring and heart-piercing.
In addition, a detail that was not mentioned in the official report is that the fire burned from the bottom to the roof, and the unit burned through from bottom to top.
On the same night that Nanjing reported the fire accident, a high-rise residential building in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, also caught fire in the far northeast, and the fire spread from the ground floor to the roof.
According to the official report: At 6:28 p.m. on February 24, a fire broke out in Building 2, Area E, Sanjiang Trade City, Qiaonan Street, Xiangyang District, Jiamusi City, and the fire rescue force immediately arrived at the scene to deal with it and extinguished the fire at 7:50. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Multiple scenes** showed that the fire burned from the bottom to the top floor, and fire trucks were on the scene to put out the fire. An eyewitness said, "From the first floor to the 16th floor, everything was (burned)." "There are many theories about the cause of this fire. Local sources say it was caused by fireworks during the Lantern Festival, and some speculated that it was caused by gas or cables.
At the same time as two high-rise fires broke out in succession in the south and north of China, on the other side of the ocean, at 2 pm local time on February 23, a six-story apartment building in New York, USA, caused a fire due to lithium batteries, killing one person and injuring 17 people.
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According to a report from Reference News, in the past few years, there have been hundreds of fires related to lithium batteries for electric bicycles and scooters in New York, USA.
There are many fire accidents caused by electric vehicles in China. According to the statistics of the National Fire and Rescue Administration, a total of 2 electric bicycle fires will be reported nationwide in 202310,000, compared to 2022 (180,000) up 174%。Other data shows that 80% of EV fires occur while charging, and more than half of them occur during charging at night.
The more tragic fire accident in Nanjing, China, is inseparable from electric vehicles.
According to ** report, as early as a few years ago, a property owner in Mingshang Xiyuan Community posted on the Internet, reflecting that there were potential safety hazards in the management of electric bicycles in the community. However, this netizen, who is known as the "earliest warning person", did not alert those who entered the homes of electric vehicles, nor did he alert the property in the community. At that time, the street and the property replied that they would strengthen patrols and management, but the effect of the so-called rectification was clear from a fire. Even after the fire, the overhead floor of other buildings in the community is still hard to find, and the overhead floors of each building are still full of electric vehicles, and the charging piles of many companies continue to compete.
It is not an exaggeration to say that electric vehicles are already the biggest fire safety hazard at the moment.
In Xi'an, there are many people who insist on pushing electric vehicles into elevators, parking corridors or pushing them indoors to charge just for convenience, regardless of the safety of their own lives and property, and the irresponsible property is also turning a blind eye.
An electric car parked in the corridor of a community in Xi'an Figure: Xixi).
Even if the property in charge of Ren will prohibit electric vehicles from entering the building, it will "open the net" to electric balance vehicles and electric scooters. In our community, there are people who often push the electric balance car into the elevator upstairs, and in the face of other people's questions, they say confidently that they have consulted the property, and the electric balance car can enter the elevator and go upstairs.
I don't know if it's the ignorance of the owner or the ignorance of the property, whether it's an electric balance bike or an electric bicycle, it's not a lithium-ion battery like an electric car, and it's not a similar charging method, so why is it safer than an electric car?
It is time for the country to adopt laws and regulations to regulate the entry of electric vehicles (including electric scooters and electric balance vehicles) into the building, and it is time to improve the safety standards and establish a responsibility check system for electric vehicle manufacturers.
In addition, a fire can burn from the bottom to the roof of the building at every turn, and the relevant parties also need to consider the fire protection problem of high-rise residential buildings. For example, if the developer cuts corners and replaces the insulation layer of the fire barrier insulation board with foam board, is it time to force the exit from the construction stage?
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In any case, for a while, we can't hope to see the elimination of electric vehicles in the building.
In any case, the vast majority of us who live in cities have neither the ability nor the possibility of escaping the dovecoon cage high-rise dwellings of the city. The shouts to stay out of high-rise homes after a fire in a high-rise building are equally useless to us.
In these two realistic situations, we who live in high-rise buildings, on the one hand, can only seek more blessings for ourselves, and on the other hand, in case of disaster, how to save ourselves.
The case of two families in Nanjing successfully escaping may bring some inspiration.
One is a pregnant couple living on the 30th floor. Ms. Qi, who is 8 months pregnant, and her lover live on the 30th floor of Unit 2 of Building 6. At the time of the fire, both of them slept soundly. First, the husband heard someone downstairs shouting "it's on fire", got up to check the situation, and hurriedly woke his wife. At first, the couple didn't dare to act rashly because they didn't know where the specific fire point was, but then more and more smoke drifted into her house, and they couldn't see anything clearly. The couple quickly wet the pillowcase, covered their mouth and nose, put down jackets over their pajamas, and came out of the house in the dark in slippers. By this time, the open flames had already burned next door. The couple fled down the stairs and flashlights on their mobile phones all the way from the 30th floor to the first floor.
In addition, a family of four living on the 7th floor, the daughter woke up the whole family after being woken up by the smoke, and the family wet the thin quilt at home with water, then wrapped the body with a wet quilt, and then put on a mask, and successfully escaped along the stairs.
The above two successful escape cases, especially the escape from the 30th floor, give us several key factors in fire escape.
The first is to take the stairwell.
Once the high-rise is **, the exterior wall and interior are flammable, but the stairwell of the shear wall structure, as long as there is no random stacking of debris inside, and there is a fire door to block, the fire is not easy to burn over under normal circumstances, on the other hand, there are few fire points, it can be said that it is the only safe passage to escape downward.
The second is fire and smoke prevention, especially smoke prevention.
The stairwell is not easy, but it does not mean that there is no fire, the flames that come in through the open fire door are likely to exist, at this time, a wet quilt or a wet long down jacket is likely to help us pass through a small range of fire artifact.
To prevent smoking, you can rely on wet towels or wet masks. Considering that a wet towel still has to occupy one hand all the time, a wet mask should be a more suitable choice. Moreover, cotton masks are undoubtedly more effective than medical masks. No matter what kind of mask it is, it's best to soak a few more at a time, and wear a few of them in case you need to change them in time.
Even better, undoubtedly a gas mask. A few people in the family always have a few gas masks, and they would rather spend money in vain for the rest of their lives, and it is a hundred times better than catching the blind when they need to use it.
Finally, low-rise residents, such as those below the 10th floor, may wish to keep an escape rope of sufficient length at hand. If there is a rope, there must be a place to fix the rope. Movable objects, tables and cabinets are not reliable, and it is best to be firmly rooted in a solid wall near a window, firmly planted with a strong steel hook. In this way, if the fire comes up from the hallway, it can also leave a way for yourself to escape on the other side.
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There are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.
Have you noticed that in recent years, there have been more and more unpredictable storms in the sky, blizzard and dust in the south, freezing rain all over the country, and the environment in which we live is becoming more and more difficult.
All kinds of disasters and accidents, landslides, fires and floods, natural disasters and man-made disasters, have not been interrupted over the years.
The more difficult it is to survive, the more we have to improve our ability to survive. Now, isn't it better than anyone else to live and survive?