Cigarettes among major causes of fire in UAE last year

Sharjah Police urged the human beings not to carelessly discard cigarette butts.

Cigarette butts, ill-maintained or defective air conditioners, negative strength connections and extensions and pretend electrical appliances were the leading reasons of fire injuries in residential and commercial buildings in Sharjah remaining year, a hearth investigation document of the Sharjah Police has revealed.

Col Adil Al Mazmi, fire expert at forensic laboratory for the Sharjah Police, entreated the human beings, particularly the ones in residential homes, factories and commercial places, not to carelessly discard cigarette butts, which should bring about fires and loss of assets in addition to lives.

He pressured on the importance of selecting and putting in good first-rate electrical connections and avoid the usage of sub-standard extensions and loading them with power better than their capacity, which may additionally cause blaze.

Al Mazmi also underlined that humans should now not leave the fuel cylinders switched on and ensure the protection of the natural fuel pipelines as well.

With the arrival of winter when tenants use water heaters in toilets indiscriminately, explosions and fire injuries increase.

To avoid any mishap while taking shower, residents must now not placed on the water warmers for lengthy hours, as a number of them may want to explode, he added.

The expert mentioned that fireside incidents in business and commercial establishments are also as a result of flawed storing of goods and inflammable materials. "Another most common purpose is the installation of bad or faux electric appliances, which results in a rise in temperature that ends in combustion of the insulating materials, and the resultant fire."

Sadly, as Al Mazmi rued, the reviews issued approximately fires, organized with the aid of specialists from the forensic laboratory in Sharjah, affirm that every one the abovementioned reasons in the back of blazes are regularly repeated in injuries.