Gyeonggi Province Fire Department Develops Homepage Providing Information on Apartment Rooftop Access Doors

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun] A program has been developed that allows residents to search their apartment name and instantly see information about where rooftop access doors are installed and whether they are open.

It is expected to greatly help residents evacuate quickly during emergencies such as fires.

The Gyeonggi Province Fire & Disaster Headquarters announced on the 18th that it has developed a "Multi-unit Housing Rooftop Access Door Information Provision" homepage.

By accessing the Gyeonggi Province Office or fire department homepage and clicking the relevant banner, users are directed to the rooftop access door information provision homepage.

By entering an apartment name in the search box, residents can view a total of eight types of information: ▲rooftop access door installation status ▲door location ▲rooftop evacuation space ▲evacuation space area ▲access door opening status ▲emergency light installation status ▲rooftop access door material ▲and roof shape.

The homepage development was prompted by an apartment fire in Gunpo last December.

At the time, two residents moving to upper floors to escape the fire mistakenly confused the elevator machine room, which was one level higher than the rooftop, with the rooftop and attempted to escape through it, resulting in casualties. This incident highlighted the need to actively inform residents about the location of rooftop access doors in multi-unit housing.

Previously, the Province Fire & Disaster Headquarters conducted a rooftop access door survey for the first time nationwide, covering all 6,618 apartment complexes and 41,621 buildings in Gyeonggi Province over a four-month period from October last year through February of this year, and released the results.

The goal was to help apartment residents familiarize themselves in advance with the location of rooftop access doors in their buildings so they could evacuate quickly during emergencies.

With the development of the rooftop access door information provision homepage, residents can now obtain information about rooftop access doors more easily and conveniently.

The Province Fire & Disaster Headquarters is coordinating with municipal and county homepages to display banner links to the information provision homepage.

Additionally, the Province Fire & Disaster Headquarters plans to produce promotional materials containing information about rooftop access door locations to help apartment residents evacuate quickly during emergencies, and will provide them to all apartment management offices throughout the province.

Lee Sang-gyu, Director of the Gyeonggi Province Fire & Disaster Headquarters, said, "We expect to contribute to the protection of residents' lives and property by actively disclosing the results of the multi-unit housing rooftop access door survey to the public," and urged, "Please familiarize yourselves in advance with information about the rooftop access door in the apartment where you reside."

Meanwhile, among the 6,618 apartment complexes and 41,621 buildings in the province, 35,124 buildings (84.4%) have rooftop evacuation spaces.

Among these, 19,126 buildings (54.5%) have rooftop access doors on the top floor, and 15,549 buildings (44.3%) have them on the floor directly below the top floor.

Access doors located two floors below the top floor were identified in 30 buildings.