Recently, the security incidents have occurred frequently in domestic public places, with some of the incidents leading to significant personal injuries and property damage. In order to improve the fire safety awareness, the prevention of fire and the self-help capacity, avoid fire accidents and protect personal and property safety, Dalian Futures Building where Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) is located, guided and supported by the Xinghai Bay Fire Brigade, staged the fire evacuation and anti-terrorism drills on April 29.
With the main targets of “fire evacuation and anti-terrorism and anti-riot exercise”, the drills include the four parts of evacuation drills, simulated arresting scenes and observation of police dogs searching explosives, performance of baton and shield, and explanation and demonstration of fire-fighting equipment. With the fire accident occurring in the toilet area on the 24th floor in the Futures Building as the assumed situation, the personnel in the office area were evacuated immediately and the volunteer fire brigade was organized to extinguish the fire so as to improve and test the effectiveness of evacuation procedures and the system equipment as well as the capacity of the departments for coordinated response. The exercise mobilized the only 101-meter crank ladder truck in Dalian, also the highest of its kind in China, which is suitable for fire fighting and lifesaving at 69-101-meter buildings.
DCE and the Futures Building have long attached great importance to the safety promotion and education and continued to achieve the targets of promotion and education as well as testing the systems and procedures through actual drills while constantly improving the system of emergency response plans. According to incomplete statistics, since 2012, five different kinds of disaster drills have been organized. In the future, DCE and the management department of the Futures Building will continue to step up and innovate the means of the safety promotion and education, in a bid to enable the participants to quickly and accurately grasp the firefighting knowledge and skills as well as improve the effectiveness of the promotion and education.