As the severe cold weather continues, NITE = National Institute of Technology and Evaluation calls for attention to accidents in which fire from heating appliances such as gas stoves and stoves burns on clothes.
According to a summary by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 492 people have died in the five years since 2017 due to "clothing fire," in which their clothes catch fire and burn.
According to NITE, damage tends to increase in the cold season when there are many opportunities to use heating appliances such as gas stoves and stoves every year, and on the 26th, it called for attention.
Cases that have been reported include a case in which
a woman in her 80s died when a fire from a gas stove spread to her clothes, and
a man who had warmed his clothes with an electric stove on his back caught fire after being heated for a long time and was burned. This means that there are cases where
All of the deaths in the reported cases were elderly people over the age of 70, and in some cases, it seems that the cause was a delay in noticing heating or ignition, or a delay in extinguishing the fire. NITE recommends
that when cooking on a gas stove, wear clothing made of non-combustible material such as an apron, and that
during the winter months it is difficult to notice the heating or ignition due to layered clothing. We are calling for special attention to the distance from the fire source.
Also, if your clothes catch fire, don't move around in a hurry. Instead, release a video that shows how to extinguish the fire by rolling left and right while pressing the burning part against the ground. is calling