Following the arson of a clinic entering a building in Kita-ku, Osaka, which killed 25 people, the Tokyo Fire Department will conduct an urgent on-site inspection of more than 2,000 buildings of similar structure in Tokyo from the 21st. started.

On the 17th of this month, 25 people were killed in an arson incident at a clinic on the 4th floor of a building in Kita-ku, Osaka, and police are investigating on suspicion of murder and arson.

In response to this, the Tokyo Fire Department began urgent on-site inspections on buildings on the 3rd floor and above that are used by an unspecified number of people and have only one staircase. ..



Of these, in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, from 6 pm on the 21st, three people, including a staff member of the Shinjuku Fire Department, entered a 7-story multi-tenant building with restaurants and other facilities.



After confirming that there are no abnormalities in the fire doors and that there are no objects placed on the stairs of the evacuation route, we handed a notice to the tenant employees to inform them of the results and requested that they continue proper management. rice field.



Since there are about 2,300 buildings in Tokyo that have the same structure as the buildings in Kita-ku, Osaka and are subject to urgent on-site inspections, the Tokyo Fire Department will take about two months to inspect them. ..