The second reason to mention is that in houses combined with production and business, there are often a lot of goods, items… arranged in many places in the house. These utensils and goods even cover areas with electrical equipment, especially electrical equipment that can generate heat…
Therefore, when an incident occurs, the fire will quickly spread to flammable materials and equipment. From there, the fire spread quickly and developed into a large fire.
In many cases, goods are spread out, blocking escape doors, escape stairs, etc., making it very difficult for victims to get through dangerous areas to get to a safe place when an incident occurs.
The fire broke out from the gate and yard, blocking the only escape route of the entire row of apartments (Photo: Ngoc Tan).
The third reason is that the escape routes and emergency exits on the floors of tube houses and houses with tiger cages are not guaranteed… When a fire breaks out, the stairs become a chimney. When victims leave the room, they will immediately inhale toxic smoke, making it very difficult to escape.
Therefore, if there are no escape routes, no balconies or emergency exits on each floor… and if the victim does not have basic escape skills, it will be very difficult to escape the fire. safely.
People smashed brick walls, creating emergency exits to rescue people in the fire (Photo: Tran Thanh).
The fourth reason is that many people’s escape skills are still very limited. If a new fire arises, people can escape, but when the fire has grown large and people’s escape skills are not good, the chance for victims to escape the fire is almost non-existent.
Another important thing is that, in single households or households combining production and business in our country today, most have not installed fire warning devices. Because there are no early fire alarm devices, when a fire occurs at night, it is almost impossible for people to detect it, until the fire has already broken out.
Skills to escape from tube houses in case of fire
According to the Fire Prevention and Fighting Police Department (Ministry of Public Security), tube houses are very common in urban areas with only one entrance and exit, which is very dangerous when a fire occurs. Therefore, when detecting a fire, people need to calmly think and alert everyone to quickly escape.
If the exit door is covered by fire and smoke, people need to find another way out such as: through the balcony, through the window to the next house, use a ladder to escape to the ground, find a way out to the roof (if possible).
The area where 14 people died in the fire had many motorbikes and electric vehicles (Photo: Tran Thanh).
According to the Fire and Rescue Police Department, when there is a fire, people absolutely must not hide in the room or toilet.
“If you have to cross the fire, people should use wet blankets to wrap around their bodies to escape. If they have to cross smoke, people should use wet towels to cover their mouths and noses and crouch low to avoid smoke inhalation, and follow the walls.” then to a safe exit. Knowing how to escape, people can save themselves and everyone else,” the Fire and Rescue Police Department informed.