Women's Day, Keeping Moms Out of Fire

March 25, 1911, New York triangle underwear factory fire, is the history of New York City's largest industrial disaster, fire led to 146 garment workers were burned to death or forced to jump from a building due to death, most of the dead are 16-23 years old Female, the youngest is only 14 years old.

New York Triangle underwear factory fire

The fire has urged legislation that requires the improvement of factory safety standards and has promoted the development of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union , which is committed to better and safer for workers in sweatshops. working environment.

The "Labor Law" provides:

1. All doors cannot be locked during work hours;

2. A fire prevention training must be conducted every three months in the workplace ;

3. The automatic fire sprinkler system must be installed on the floors of more than 200 staff on the 7th floor;

4. Any workplace over two floors with more than 25 employees must have an automatic alarm system installed.

5. There must be a variety of safe exits, unobstructed fire safety doors and access roads without obstacles;

6. It is necessary to write and post evacuation plans and must provide written fire prevention plans;

7. All equipment that has a fire hazard or contains chemicals that may cause fires must be maintained and controlled frequently.

Therefore, the International Women's Day is not only a festival set up to celebrate women's important contributions in economic, political, and social fields, but also to achieve great achievements. This festival is also to commemorate the death of more than 140 women workers killed in the fire in 1911 in the New York Triangle underwear factory .

According to information released by the Ministry of Public Security Fire Department, more than 90 % of fires in China are caused by illegal use of electricity, gas, and fire carelessness. From the point of view of the degree of damage caused by fire, compared with foreign countries, the number of fires in China is relatively high. Not much more than them, but the death toll and mass-fragmentation fires are far higher than many times. The main reason is that our national fire safety awareness and the basic knowledge of fire prevention are lacking. At the same time, the ability to escape from self-rescue is poor. When a fire strikes, they often do nothing and eventually lead to a tragedy.

Women, especially women, are more vulnerable because of physical and psychological factors. Among the many mass casualties and fires that occur throughout the country, women’s deaths account for a large proportion. Countless blood lessons show that when a fire occurs, women’s ability to escape self-rescue and self-protection is weak, and women’s fire safety education and training are strengthened so that they can acquire certain fire safety knowledge and self-defense skills. This is not only to protect women’s personal safety. The need is also the need to safeguard the safety of the country and people's property and improve the overall safety of the nation.

Women are not only the backbone of the family, the child's first teacher, but also play a special role in the unit and the community. It can be said that educating a woman means educating a family and driving two generations. Among the fires that occurred in China, 60 % to 70 % are household fires. Preventing home fires is one of the important tasks of firefighting. In households, it is the responsibility of the housewife to use electricity safely, to use gas, to use fire and to educate the elderly, and the child to pay attention to fire safety. Therefore, women play a very important role in preventing home fires.

In the unit, especially in the relatively concentrated positions of women, such as hotels, restaurants, public entertainment venues, shopping malls, hospitals, elementary schools, kindergartens, textile mills, garment factories, etc., women are the main force of work and production, and at the same time It is an important force for fire extinguishing and maintenance of fire safety, and it is also the biggest beneficiary of doing a good job of fire fighting and reducing fire hazards.

Many countries in the world have established relatively perfect women's fire protection organizations and women have played an irreplaceable role in firefighting work. For example, there are women's fire protection organizations throughout Japan. They regularly study, train, and carry out promotional activities. They also have special clothing and signs and are very regular. They play a very important role in local firefighting work, especially the firefighting work of communities and families. In Jingdezhen, the “porcelain capital” of China, there is a “mom fire prevention team”. Most of them consist of family women and retired old mothers. They go households, promote fire prevention, eliminate fire hazards in residential areas, and pass on generations of generations. For more than 50 years, he kept the party safe.

The practice of women’s fire education in many parts of the country has proven that doing a good job of women’s fire education in this special group not only raises the awareness of women’s fire safety, which accounts for nearly half of the total population of the entire society, but also effectively reduces women’s deaths and injuries. The increase in awareness of fire protection throughout the society reduces the probability of fire.

Act now, women compatriots, in order to protect their beautiful homeland, are no longer the victims of the devil.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.