Shanghai Conducts Fire Safety Awareness Campaign with Community, Rural, and Household Theme Day Activities

Door-to-door safety reminders, hands-on experiences with fire extinguisher use and smoke mask donning, organizing evacuation drills for residents… To further strengthen fire prevention and control during the winter and spring seasons and enhance fire safety awareness among urban and rural residents, a city-wide concentrated “Fire Safety Knowledge Promotion into Communities, Villages, and Households” theme day event was launched, mobilizing street offices, neighborhood (village) committees, and property service enterprises.

In the afternoon, at the Xiangyuan Lidu residential community in Putuo District, teams consisting of personnel from public security, civil affairs, street offices, neighborhood committees, power, and gas sectors conducted door-to-door promotion and service visits to households of key care groups. They delivered safety promotional materials, provided reminders on safe use of fire, electricity, and gas, and replaced power strips that did not meet safety standards or were aged. Staff reminded key care groups to use electric blankets safely, keep electric heaters away from combustible materials, avoid drying clothes on electric heaters, refrain from parking or charging electric bicycles indoors, remember never to leave the kitchen unattended while cooking, and avoid smoking in bed. For the very elderly, proactive care and assistance were offered, including checking whether electrical wiring and gas stoves met safety requirements and helping to clear combustible clutter from corridors, balconies, and kitchens.

Teams from public security, urban management, housing management, neighborhood committees, property management, and firefighting volunteers conducted safety inspections of the community’s public firefighting facilities, fire truck access routes, corridors, and pipe shafts. The focus was on rectifying and clearing illegal activities such as obstruction, blockage,堆放杂物, and improper parking and charging of electric bicycles.

In the community square, the Putuo District Fire and Rescue Bureau set up public interactive experience booths such as “Firefighting Nine-Square Game,” “Safety Knowledge Quiz,” “Extinguishing Real Fire,” “Water Hose Target Practice,” and “Window Breaking for Escape.” On-site activities included demonstrations on using fire extinguishers and wall-mounted fire hydrants, as well as fire science popularization experiences like wearing smoke masks, which were well-received by residents. Public security, fire rescue, civil affairs, housing management, and other departments set up safety knowledge promotion and service points based on their respective responsibilities, using display boards to highlight typical residential fire cases and accident lessons.

To test the rapid response capability of residential communities in the event of fires or other emergencies, personnel from public security, fire rescue, and community micro-stations organized residents to participate in evacuation drills under simulated emergency conditions and training on initial fire suppression skills. A fire safety science lecture was also held at the Party-Mass Activity Center.

On the same day, various districts across the city held diverse “Fire Safety Knowledge Promotion into Communities, Villages, and Households” theme day events. Street offices and neighborhood committees actively mobilized firefighting volunteers and safety volunteers to promote the “Three Clears and Three Shutdowns” (clear kitchen, clear balcony, clear corridor; shut off gas, shut off power, shut off fire source) fire safety reminders. They participated in劝导文明行为 such as clearing corridors and standardizing electric bicycle parking and charging, guiding residents to actively rectify fire hazards in their surroundings.