Fire 315: How to recognize fake and inferior fire-fighting products?

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Fake and fake firefighting products are harmful

We know that fire products, as public safety products, play a major role in fighting fires and escaping.

However, a batch of counterfeit and inferior fire-fighting products will appear on the market each year, seriously disrupting the market order, leading to a large number of potential fire hazards, and posing a great threat to social public safety. This is a frenzied move by some manufacturers and businesses to ignore consumer life and property safety and seek illegal interests.

Let's look at two cases:

1, 1998 January 6, Changde City, Hunan Province Electric Co., hotel fire. The employees immediately found fire extinguishers. However, when they used five dry powder fire extinguishers in a hurry, they discovered that none of them could spray dry powder. Afterwards, as detected by the fire department, 40% of dry powder fire extinguishers in the hotel were actually agglomerated, 35% of the fire extinguisher gas leaked, and only 25% could be used normally .

2, 2005 June 10, Chaonan Shantou City, Guangdong Province in South China hotel fire, a total of 31 people were killed and three seriously injured. According to the firefighters involved in the fire fighting at the time, the fire-fighting facilities in the hotel basically did not play a role, there was no pressure, and the switches were mostly loose. Afterwards, the relevant person in charge of the Fire Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security made it clear that the results of the investigation of the “ 6.10 ” fire accident in Shantou, Guangdong Province showed that the hotel’s automatic alarm and fire extinguishing system did not operate during the fire.

Laws and regulations

"People's Republic of China Product Quality Law"

Article 4 Producers and sellers shall assume product quality responsibilities in accordance with the provisions of this Law.

Article 32 Producers shall not produce adulterated or adulterated products, shall not use false pretenses, shoddy goods, and may not pass off unqualified products as qualified products.

Article 39 Sellers selling products shall not be adulterated or adulterated, shall not be filled with counterfeit goods and shoddy goods, and may not pass off unqualified products as qualified products.

Article 50 If products are adulterated or adulterated, if they are falsified, shoddy, or unqualified products are used to impersonate qualified products, they shall be ordered to stop production and sales, confiscate products that have been illegally produced and sold, and illegally produce products. A fine of 50 to 3 times the value of sales of goods ; if there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated ; if the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be revoked. Constitute a crime, be held criminally responsible.

"People's Republic of China Fire Protection Law

Article 24 Fire-fighting products must comply with national standards ; in the absence of national standards, they must comply with industry standards. It is forbidden to produce, sell or use unqualified fire-fighting products and fire-fighting products that have been ordered by the State to be eliminated.

Article 25: The product quality supervision department, the administrative department for industry and commerce, and the fire control agency of the public security organ shall, in accordance with their respective duties, strengthen the supervision and inspection of the quality of fire protection products.

Article 65 In case of violation of the provisions of this Law, the production or sale of unqualified fire protection products or fire protection products that have been ordered to be phased out by the State shall be given a heavier punishment by the product quality supervision department or the industry and commerce administration department in accordance with the provisions of the "PRC Product Quality Law." .

Those who use unqualified fire-fighting products or state-declared fire-fighting products in densely populated establishments shall be ordered to make corrections within a time limit ; if they do not correct within the prescribed time limit , they shall be fined between 5,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan, and be directly responsible for the responsible persons and other direct responsibilities. The personnel shall be fined between 500 and 2,000 yuan ; if the circumstances are serious, they shall be ordered to suspend production.

How to identify counterfeit and inferior fire products?

( I ) Lined fire hose

Fire Hose

The lining fire hose adhesion strength (N / 25mm ) according to the standard requirements, the adhesion strength between the hose fabric layer and the lining ( or cover layer ) should not be less than 20 , and this type of shoddy products test results are mostly 4 . 7-9. Between 5 ; its expansion rate ( % ) according to the standard requirements ≤ 5 , and this type of inferior product inspection results in 5 . 3-6. Between 2 ; its burst pressure (MPa) according to the standard requirements > 2 . 4 , and the results of this type of shoddy products are 2 . 1 - 2 . Between the 3 ; This type of shoddy products logo almost no production date, most of the material description without warp, weft and lining.

( b ) Fire hose

Fire hose

The inferior fire hose interface size is lower than the standard requirements, and most of the inner and outer surfaces have trachoma, scab, etc.; thread appearance lacks teeth, the surface is not smooth; water gun surface mostly has pits, trachoma; its logo almost no name .

( III ) Fire Hydrant Box

Fire hydrant box

Hydrant box should use a thickness of not less than 1 . 2mm thin steel plate manufacturing, and the test results are all below this standard value, mostly at 0 . 8 to 0 . 9mm ; most of its logo without nameplate and operating instructions.

( D ) Indoor fire hydrants

The shoddy indoor fire hydrants require that the size of most hand wheels is lower than the standard, and the inspection results of the interface size are also lower than the standard requirements. There are more cases of trachoma on the surface of the interface castings; from the outside, most of the inner surfaces are not coated with antirust paint. The exterior paint film has flow marks, unevenness and other phenomena.

( v ) Steel fire doors

Steel fire door

The fake steel fire doors are mainly characterized by: (1) There are no non-flammable materials in the door frame, the door is not provided with a seal groove, or the seal groove made of non-combustible material is not embedded in the seal groove; (2) There is no standard requirement Mark; (3) Size and shape tolerance test results are less than the standard requirements.

( 6 ) Fire emergency lighting and marker lights

Fire emergency lighting

The inferiority of fire emergency lighting and sign lights mainly manifests as:

(1) Conversion voltage (V) . When the mains voltage according to the standard fire emergency lighting state into a state of emergency the main power should be 132 - In the range of 187V, the test results mostly in the 105 ~ 120V, some only 13V; standard state to return to the main contingency The main voltage in the electrical state should not be less than 187V , while the test results are mostly in the range of 93 to 123V , and some are only 14V .

(2) Basic function check. The emergency conversion time (s) shall be ≤ 5 according to the standard , and the test result shall not meet the requirements; the emergency working time (min) shall be > 190 according to the standard , and the test result shall be approximately 80 .

(3) Inspection of major components. According to the standard requirements, self-contained power supply and auxiliary power fire emergency lighting should not use lead-acid batteries or other non-sealed batteries, and the test results are mostly lead-acid batteries; according to the standard requirements, emergency fire-fighting lamps should be provided with grounding terminals, and the terminals are clearly marked. , and some products without grounding terminals and marking.

( 7 ) Fire Extinguisher

Fire extinguisher

The inferior fire extinguisher shows that: most of the wall thickness of the cylinder is not enough; the opening force of the insurance does not meet the standard requirements; the label does not meet the standard requirements; the content of the fire extinguishing agent does not meet the standard requirements; the fire extinguishing effect cannot be achieved; the individual injection operation is not effective; the fire extinguishing agent Not enough weight.

Conclusion:

According to firefighters' introduction, counterfeit and inferior fire-fighting products are not much different from formal products in appearance. Once these fake and inferior fire-fighting products are installed on homes and construction projects, they will not only fail to prevent fire and extinguish fire, but will cause organs and organizations to The enterprises, institutions and institutions are paralyzed and think that fire products are safe and sound. However, once a fire breaks out, these fire-fighting products lose their functions of fire prevention and fire extinguishing, easily causing the small fire to cause disasters, causing major economic losses and group deaths. Mass injuries and fire accidents.

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