In the early morning of February 24, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, held a press conference to report on the "2.23" fire accident in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing. 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. According to Liang Jun, head of the Nanjing Fire and Rescue Detachment, after preliminary analysis, the fire was caused by the parking of electric bicycles on the overhead floor of 6 buildings, and the specific cause is being further investigated.
The Lantern Festival has not yet been completed, and it is still during the Spring Festival, but the victim's family is already separated forever. People are not abstract numbers, and the 15 victims have had a rich life in this world like you and me. At the press conference, the mayor of Nanjing, Chen Zhichang, bowed and apologized: expressing deep condolences to the victims, and expressing deep apologies to the families of the victims, the injured and their relatives. Seeking truth from facts, objectively and accurately ascertaining the cause of the accident, and seriously pursuing responsibility and accountability in accordance with laws and regulations is the proper attitude of being responsible for life and the truth.
The scene of the incident. Surging News reporter Wang Yicheng pictured.
* The reason for the notification is very rigorous, the current preliminary report is the overhead layer parking electric bicycle **, is not caused by the electric vehicle charging caused by the fire, but also need the fire department's authoritative survey, identification. However, this does not prevent reflection on the fire risk caused by the charging chaos.
As early as 2022, Nanjing TV's "Rule of Law Scene" column made a news report that "the overhead floor of Mingshang Xiyuan Community is crowded with electric vehicles". At that time, some residents said that more than 180 electric vehicles were parked in the overhead floor of Building 2 of the community, and since the ban on storing electric vehicles in the corridor in 2019, the overhead floor originally used for fitness and leisure and parking bicycles has become a parking place for electric vehicles, and in 2019, the building had a fire due to electric vehicles. The wall blackened by the fire is impressively visible in the news**, and there are dense electric vehicles parked in the overhead floor, and the wall is a complex charging line. In addition, some netizens complained on social platforms as early as 2020 about the serious hidden dangers of electric vehicle charging in the community.
Screenshot of related reports in 2022, there are many electric vehicles parked in the overhead floor, and complex charging lines are on the wall.
If there really is a "what if" in the world, if these complaints and reports about the risk of electric vehicle charging in Mingshang Xiyuan a few years ago are taken seriously, if effective measures are taken to remove the fire hazard ......But there is no "what if" in the world, and life should not be a fluke.
The requirements of functional departments for the safety of electric vehicle charging have long been reaffirmed. As early as 2017, the Ministry of Public Security issued a regulation that "it is strictly forbidden to park or charge battery cars in public areas such as shared walkways, stairwells, and safety exits in buildings". Since then, it has been rectifying the potential safety hazards of electric bicycles "entering the building and entering the house", "people and vehicles in the same house" and "flying wire charging". In 2021, a news that "an electric car exploded when it entered the elevator, causing a 5-month-old baby to be admitted to the ICU" shocked the whole society.
Safety standards cannot be discounted, fire protection standards cannot be discounted, and there is no safety regulation and fire protection code that is not written with blood and life. To avoid the "price of blood", it is necessary to ensure early detection, early reporting, early warning, and early intervention, so as to prevent risks in daily safety management, and eliminate obvious safety loopholes and fire hazards in the first time. The charging in the community is not standardized, and the problems such as charging in the aisle of electric bicycles and entering the building and entering the house are brewing safety risks all the time. "Disasters often accumulate in the slightest", and after a long time of charging chaos, there may be paralysis and luck mentality, and the existence of gray rhinoceros will be ignored.
This time, the "2.23" fire accident has a profound lesson, and the charging chaos and fire hazards have been talked about one after another, and netizens have complained and complained, but the tragedy still happened. This shows that the bottom line cannot be ambiguous, there is no fluke in safety, do not test safety norms with your life, and cannot compromise with "convenience with blood". It is better to take precautions than to lose precautions, and to report on potential safety hazards, but the most important thing is that it must be corrected.
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