Early warning, 48 hours after evacuation, the house of the elderly living alone collapsed
On Gunan Street, Qijiang, community grid members are urging Wen Pingzhen to evacuate. Photo by upstream reporter Zhang Jinqi
Not long ago, heavy rains occurred in Chongqing. Wen Pingzhen, an old man who lives alone in Xinshan Village, Gunan Street, Qijiang District, Chongqing, evacuated her house under the persuasion of community grid members.
When we left, Wen Pingzhen, 72, was very unwilling to believe that there would be problems in the old house that had lived for decades.
However, just 48 hours after she was evacuated, the house collapsed at night...
Timely warning
Elderly people living alone successfully evacuated
Entering the flood season, the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission has strengthened the supervision and management of the use of urban houses. Not long ago, heavy rains occurred in Chongqing, and the Quality Supervision Station of the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission issued warning information on the use of safety of urban housing entities to the district and county housing construction departments.
After receiving the warning information, the Qijiang District Housing Construction Committee forwarded the warning information to all streets and towns through the party and government intranet and the QQ work group at the same time. Jiang Xiumei, a member of the community cadre grid of Xinshan Village, Gunan Street, carried out activities on the dilapidated houses in the area as required Investigation and dynamic monitoring.
"On the same day, a nearby resident called me and said there were cracks in the house, so I rushed to the scene." Jiang Xiumei said, she discovered that the D-class dilapidated house at No.28 Xincun Road, which is Wen Pingzhen’s home, had the crack monitoring point widened, Signs of exacerbation, the house may collapse at any time, Jiang Xiumei immediately reported the situation.
After receiving the report, the community director immediately organized Jiang Xiumei and grid member Lv Li to arrange for Wen Pingzhen, an elderly person living alone, to evacuate for proper resettlement.
"The old man Wen Pingzhen is a nostalgic old man. She doesn't want to leave her home. Our streets and communities have done ideological work for nearly a day to persuade her to put her life safety first." Jiang Xiumei said. In the end, the old man reluctantly agreed to live in Neighbor's house.
The streets and communities also moved the elderly’s daily necessities to another neighbor’s house for temporary storage, put a seal on the dangerous house, and set up a cordon.
Just 48 hours after they evacuated, the residents found that Wen Pingzhen’s house had collapsed. "I rushed to the scene after 7 o'clock in the morning and it collapsed. The civil structure collapsed in the middle. Aunt Wen Pingzhen's bed was covered with mud." Jiang Xiumei said, looking at the collapsed old house, the on-site staff couldn't help but sigh. Evacuate in time.
Intelligent monitoring
24-hour real-time monitoring and early warning
In fact, this is not the first successful early warning case in our city.
In 2018, the monitoring data of a Class C dilapidated house in Wangjia Street, Yubei District continued to experience abnormalities. “After the data was found to be abnormal, we immediately notified the street to arrange the residents to move out. The house collapsed on the third day after moving out.” Yubei District lives Zhang Guizhong, deputy chief of the Housing and Land Acquisition Section of the Construction Committee, said that this benefited from the 24-hour real-time monitoring equipment used in Yubei District, and data on dilapidated houses can be obtained through mobile terminals.
The system can monitor data indicators such as house tilt and cracks. By installing sensors on the main structure of the house, it can realize 24-hour real-time monitoring, and an early warning will be given when the data is abnormal. "The accuracy of the equipment is very high, and we can capture the changes in the size of the hair." The person in charge of the system introduced.
"At present, Yubei District has implemented 24-hour real-time monitoring of 9 C-level dangerous buildings." Zhang Guizhong said.
“Through planning ahead deployment, full coverage of potential safety hazards, monitoring and early warning, etc., from January to July this year, there was no casualty accident of the main use of urban housing in the city.” The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Housing and Construction Commission said.
Chongqing Morning News·Upstream News Reporter Wang Qian