What harm does fire do to human beings?

Fire is one of the disasters that threaten public safety and endanger people's lives and property. As the saying goes: "Fire and water are ruthless"; A thief steals half and burns half. Nowadays, fire is a catastrophic problem faced by people all over the world. It has caused many serious losses of life and property to human society. With the development of social productive forces, social wealth is increasing day by day, and the general trend of rising fire losses and expanding the scope of fire hazards is an objective law. According to the data provided by the United Nations World Fire Statistics Center, the losses caused by fires in the United States have doubled in less than seven years, with 16 in Japan and 12 in China. There are more than 1000 fires every day in the world, causing hundreds of deaths. In recent years, there are about 40,000 fires in China every year, with more than 2,000 deaths and 30-4,000 injuries. Every year, the direct property loss caused by fire exceeds 654.38+0 billion yuan, especially the catastrophic fire that killed dozens and hundreds of people, which caused great losses to the life and property of the country and people. The grim reality proves that fire is a kind of disaster with high frequency among multiple disasters in the world today, and it is also a kind of disaster with the largest time and space span. The harmfulness of fire is reflected in the following five aspects.

1, fire will cause significant direct property losses.

On August 5th, 1993, the Qingshuihe warehouse of Shenzhen Anmao Dangerous Goods Storage and Transportation Company reacted due to the mixed storage of chemical dangerous goods, causing a fire and explosion accident. The fire burned for 16 hours, resulting in 15 deaths, 8 missing and 873 injured. During the rescue, only 54 policemen died, two deputy directors of the Public Security Bureau died and the building area was burned.

2. The indirect property loss caused by the fire is more serious.

In modern society, all walks of life are closely linked, which affects the whole body. In the event of a serious fire, indirect property losses are often dozens of times that of direct property losses.

On July 3rd, 1990, Sichuan Li Ziyuan Railway Tunnel exploded and caught fire due to oil and gas leaking from a tanker. The people's Liberation Army 13 troops, the Second Artillery Corps, the Chengdu Military Region, and the divisional reserve division of Daxian Army, as well as the Daxian detachment of the Armed Police, the fourth detachment, and the Sichuan Provincial Fire Corps participated in the fire fighting and rescue. The direct property loss of the fire was only 5 million yuan, but the railway transportation was interrupted for 23 days, and the whole line was opened to traffic on the 26th, causing thousands of passengers to stay and many units to stop working. Indirect property losses are difficult to estimate.

3. Fire will cause a large number of casualties.

According to statistics, in 2000, the national fire killed 302 1 person and burned 4,404 people, with an average of 8.3 people burned every day. In 2000, there were 57 18 fires in * * * Sichuan, with 102 deaths and 243 injuries. 65438+On February 25th, 2000, a fire broke out in Du Dong Commercial Building in Luoyang, Henan Province due to the illegal operation of welders, resulting in 309 deaths and 7 injuries. According to the statistics of the global fire survey conducted by the International Fire Protection Technical Committee, in recent years, there are 6-7 million fires in the world every year, and about 60-70 thousand people are killed in the fires. The six countries with the largest number of fire deaths each year in the world are: (1) India, with an average of 20,000 people per year; (2) Russia, with an average annual population of1.350; (3) The United States, with an average annual population of 5,000; (4) China, with an average annual population of 2. 1 10000; (5) Japan, with an average annual population of 2,000; (6) Ukraine, with an average annual population of 1.7 thousand.

Fire will destroy the ecological balance.

From May 6th to June 2nd, 1987, the forest fire in Daxinganling lasted almost a month. The direct cause of the fire is that forest farm workers smoke in the wild, and the indirect cause is that the climatic conditions are conducive to combustion and there are many combustibles. Nearly 65,438+10,000 PLA soldiers and civilians, forest police, public security fire fighting and workers fought for nearly a month before the fire was put out. The fire caused 193 deaths and 226 injuries. It destroyed more than ten thousand mu of forest resources in/kloc-0 and affected three towns in 1 county. It takes 80 years to restore the destroyed ecological balance, and the economic loss is as high as 69130,000 yuan. According to statistics, the average annual forest fire area in China has reached 6.5438+0 million hectares (the forest coverage rate in China is only 654.38+0.3% and that in Japan is 60%), and the forest area has been greatly reduced, resulting in floods.

5. Fire will cause bad social and political influence.

If there is a fire in the head office, communication hub, foreign-related units, ancient buildings and scenic spots, it will have a serious political impact, even affecting the whole country and even the whole world.

1994165438+1October 15 A fire broke out in the Yindu nightclub in Jilin City, which affected the city museum in the same building and burned down the construction area of 6,800 square meters, not only causing direct property losses of 67 1000 yuan. Moreover, more than 7,000 cultural relics hidden in the museum and 1 dinosaur fossils from Heilongjiang (length 1 1 m, height 6.5 m) exhibited in the museum were burned, and the largest meteorite (654,338+0) in meteorite shower, Jilin Province was listed as a world-class treasure in the Guinness Book of World Records.

It can be seen that the fire hazard is quite serious. We should conscientiously implement the fire control policy of "putting prevention first and combining prevention with elimination", and at the same time, we should actively prepare for fire fighting from the ideological, organizational and material aspects, so that once a fire breaks out, it can be put out quickly and effectively, and the fire losses and casualties can be minimized.