On March 12, the Fire Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of emergency management further deployed and required fire rescue agencies in various regions to take targeted measures to pay close attention to the fire prevention and control work, better serve the resumption of work and production of enterprises, and fully guarantee the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development.

It is reported that since February, fires have broken out in factories and warehouses in Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui, Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu and Hebei. Major fire deaths have occurred in Guangdong, Guizhou and Henan, and nine people have been killed in a store fire in Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province. With the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic prevention and control situation continues to improve, production and life order recovery, enterprises to expand work resumption and production, people flow logistics increasingly busy, coupled with winter and spring alternate, day and night temperature difference, some areas use electricity to use fire to warm up, safety risk interweave and superposition. The fire and Rescue Bureau requires local fire rescue agencies to submit to local Party committees and governments to incorporate the fire prevention and control work for resumption of work into the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, comprehensively compact the leadership responsibility of local government, regulatory responsibility of industrial departments, and main responsibility of enterprise units, strengthen joint prevention and control, and timely resolve risks. We should adhere to the differentiated supervision by division and classification, combine on-site inspection with remote monitoring and online monitoring, and increase the service guidance of enterprises returning to work. For fire hazards that are easy to be rectified, guide enterprises to rectify and eliminate them in a timely manner; for those that can not be rectified for a while, guide enterprises to strictly guard against sticking to them; for those with major fire hazards and without safety conditions, the government is requested to take special control measures to resolutely prevent fire. In view of the frequent fire accidents in small units, small places and residential buildings in recent years, it is necessary to promote the grid forces of streets, towns, grass-roots units and police stations, and organize investigation and inspection in combination with the work arrangement of epidemic prevention and control, so as to effectively and strictly prevent them. Pay close attention to high-risk places such as high-rise buildings, large-scale commercial complexes, underground space, cultural and Museum units, nursing homes and other high-risk places, so as to eliminate potential safety hazards, prevent and control major risks, and ensure that the fire situation in the social area continues to be stable.

According to the requirements of the Fire Rescue Bureau, local fire rescue agencies should carry out case warning education in combination with the recent enterprise fire accidents, to prompt the fire safety risks of enterprises, small and micro enterprises, small units and small places; combined with the family fire, it should prompt the safety precautions of household isolation and household fire, electricity and gas, and enhance the public's awareness of fire safety. It is necessary to focus on fire safety managers of social units, operators on duty in fire control room and staff of micro fire stations, and guide enterprises to carry out a comprehensive fire safety training focusing on understanding the fire risk of the place where they are and "one understanding and three skills" including being able to alarm, escape and put out the initial fire, so as to improve the self prevention and self rescue ability of employees.