Seeing the New Year's Day, the Spring Festival approaching, many shopping malls, hotels and other business establishments and even ordinary families, like to use some decorative arrangements have their own characteristics, but it looks beautiful, placed really safe?
Yiwu International Trade City, a district on the third floor of the gift wholesale Street, many shops are placed in front of a wide variety of plastic ornaments, including Christmas trees in particular, the tree is also hanging lanterns, plush toys, plastic Ball and other decorations, priced from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars.According to the business, sales of plastic ornaments mainly in two materials: one is PVC (polyvinyl chloride) material 'fiber' Plastic ornaments, one is the pine needles plastic ornaments made of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), and the merchants said that they are not selling flammable materials that fact ?
Recently, Yiwu Fire Brigade on two different materials of plastic decorations were tested.
Firefighters cut the branches of the same length (without any decoration) from two plastic ornaments of different materials respectively and tested the flammability with a lighter.
Experiments have shown that 'pine needles' plastic ornaments are flammable and a little sparks ignite, while 'fiber' plastic ornaments are the same, but the fire does not spread and the flame gets smaller and goes out.
Firefighters experimented with the entire 'pine needles' plastic decorations, just lit, the fire spread rapidly, and the fire was very fierce, resulting in a large number of smoke, accompanied by a very pungent taste. Less than two minutes, near Plastic mounts with a height of one meter have only one iron bracket left, and if indoors, a large amount of smoke and toxic gases from the burning of plastic ornaments can easily cause suffocation.
Although experiments show that PVC (PVC) plastic material 'optical fiber' is not on the point of a little, quickly burn, but with AC power supply, directly linked to the above small lantern, in the event of a short circuit, it is easy to spread into a fire If the tree and then configure some foam, plastic combustible flammable ornaments, there is a big security risk.
Fire Department reminder, home decorations placed plastic, be sure to stay away from fire and heat. In particular, to educate children, can not play with fire, do not let it play alone in the following. Try to buy a certificate, product description manufacturers of goods , Once the problem is found, is conducive to the protection of rights in the public gathering places, plastic ornaments placed should not block the evacuation routes, the surrounding must be equipped with the appropriate fire extinguishing equipment, for the need for electricity in the small tube must check the line, not overload Do not run the wires exposed, at the same time to clear the fire safety responsibility, to develop a viable fire escape plan.