Fires... billions of dollars in losses annually

[size=52]Fires... billions of dollars in losses annually[/size]

[size=45]Almost on a daily basis, fire incidents are frequent in Iraq and the causes are many, while the electrical connection is at the fore, between accidents in commercial buildings, government institutions, hospitals, vegetable stalls, large agricultural areas and other sites.[/size]
[size=45]Last year, two fires occurred as a result of the lack of necessary safety conditions, as a fire occurred in Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in the capital, Baghdad, and a fire occurred in Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Dhi Qar Governorate, which resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of patients and their companions.[/size]
[size=45]Fires, which are almost a daily scene in the country, result in major material losses amounting to billions of dollars, amid the absence of safety and firefighting systems or ignorance in their activation and use.[/size]
[size=45]Neglecting safety and firefighting systems[/size]
[size=45]Engineer Seif El-Din Tamer Hindi, owner of an agent company for international companies specialized in the manufacture of fire protection systems, on how to fortify against fires and safety means, says, “The Directorate of Civil Defense is primarily responsible for fortification and fire protection and for issuing recommendations and instructions,” noting that “Any building in the world, even in Iraq, according to the law, is supposed to follow up the safety conditions in it by the Civil Defense before granting approval for construction after ensuring that safety and security requirements are met.”[/size]
[size=45]An Indian, adding that “the safety system and the protective equipment it contains are somewhat expensive, but they do not exceed 10% of the cost of the smallest fire that may occur in a school, government department or commercial building.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that “providing a safety system eliminates the loss of the lives of citizens and civil defense personnel, as well as ensuring that civil defense tools and equipment used in firefighting operations, which are very expensive, are not damaged, in addition to avoiding material losses to the burning site, which are losses for the country, whether the site is affiliated with the sector. public or private.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained, "Most of the fires occur in warehouses due to the storage mechanism and the allocation of buildings that are not originally intended for this, such as houses and others, without adhering to the prevention and guidelines recommended globally and by the Iraqi Civil Defense, which include even the building materials used," stressing "the necessity of using self-extinguishing systems." And not only manual work, and a pledge to activate the law that imposes the use of autonomous systems.”[/size]
[size=45]And he stated, "Among the peace systems are self-sprinklers, but unfortunately they are not often used except in investment projects that are somewhat large, although they are supposed to be used everywhere according to the Iraqi law that imposed their status."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "these sprinklers are currently found in old government buildings, including in the old hotels known in the capital, Baghdad, such as Ishtar, Baghdad and Palestine hotels, in addition to the problem of dispensing with self-extinguishing systems first when there is any shortage of funding."[/size]
[size=45]irregular stores[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the economist, Mustafa Akram Hantoush, says, “One of the societal and commercial phenomena that had negative results is the merchants storing millions of dollars in goods and in large quantities in irregular warehouses that do not contain firefighting systems, early warning systems, and even security systems, but rather warehouses in exhausted buildings. On the second and third floors underground.[/size]
[size=45]Hantoush added, “This type of storage is negative and leads to the loss of large quantities, in addition to that, it leads to fires that cost millions of dollars,” noting that “the state does not have a strategic stockpile of materials, in addition to the Ministry of Commerce’s import, for example, for the ration quota despite It has thousands of silos and stores that have become emptied, which led to this role being taken by traders who import and store in very large quantities, almost four years in storage, especially perfumes and other materials that have a large expiration date.”[/size]
[size=45]And he continued, "These things led to the presence of very large, irregular stores for easy storage and proximity to points of sale," calling for "reorganizing the Iraqi trade process, and taking a major role for the Ministry of Trade in opening its stores and opening imports, and to have strategic storage and prevent Importing some of the available materials, working to make profits, and opening retail tools in the central markets.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained, "The private sector took this role and began providing stores with strategic treasuries worth billions of irregular dollars, the aim of which is to achieve maximum profit, even if it was at the expense of the security system, fires, or even national security for the economy," stressing "the need to reconsider granting licenses for storage and formation of the economy." reconnaissance teams.[/size]
[size=45]electric seam tops[/size]
[size=45]Civil Defense Media Director, Brigadier General Jawdat Abdel Rahman, says that “the causes of the fires are numerous and the Civil Defense Directorate has counted them, but the most prominent reason that indicates to us for several consecutive years is the electrical contact, and this issue is true. The small ones used in homes, as well as the loading of electrical appliances more than the prescribed loads.”[/size]
[size=45]Brigadier Abdul Rahman added, "Many of the electrical points that are acquired, unfortunately, have unreliable and not good origins, so the electrical contact is repeated, which is the most prominent reason for the occurrence of fire accidents, and the Directorate worked on the awareness program on many occasions, knowing that the electrical contact is the One of the causes of global fires, not in Iraq.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "there are other reasons, including children's tampering, the large number of clan conflicts and oil fires due to negligence and external sources of fire, in addition to random storage in commercial warehouses scattered in Baghdad and the provinces."[/size]
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