Dacha security is a common matter
In the summer season, fires in suburban areas are not uncommon. Then the garbage was set on fire and did not follow, then someone's careless hand threw an unkempt cigarette butt into the dry grass and caught fire, then the fire is thrown from the nearest forest. And it happens that a fire occurs in a country house, through the fault of the owner...
Such cases are rare, but they make you think about the need for safe use of stoves and electric heating devices, the inadmissibility of smoking indoors and near suburban buildings.
To avoid "external" trouble, we recommend that you slightly increase your dacha security by using simple methods.
From the side of the forests that often surround dacha cooperatives, it is necessary to make a plowing - to plow a strip of land to a homogeneous mineral layer, a sufficient width is 4 meters, but practice shows that the plowing justifies itself if its width around the houses is at least 8 meters. Such a band is called mineralized. It will not allow the fire to pass through it, unless, of course, the wind is too strong,and the fire is riding.
If your dacha in the garden society is located on the edge, the right plowing will save not only your house, but also the entire dacha society. So this is a common cause, and you can ask your neighbors to help you.
Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to prevent fire from entering the dacha plot. In such a case, you need to arm yourself with fire extinguishing means. If you do not have a well or a reservoir on the territory, you must have barrels of water (with a capacity of at least 200 liters) and buckets to start extinguishing the fire quickly. A special pump with hoses for water supply will not hurt, it can be used to cool the walls of buildings, thus protecting them from the effects of thermal radiation, to knock down the flames of the fire approaching on dry grass.
It is better to have a powder fire extinguisher at the dacha, it is universal. They can also be extinguished under voltage, if the TV, for example, lights up. Moreover, on an average dacha plot, it is necessary to have at least two 4-kilogram fire extinguishers, everyone will be able to extinguish up to 20 square meters. meters of burning surface. One fire extinguisher is used to localize the fire, the second-to extinguish the remaining small foci.
The most common cause of fires in suburban cooperatives is the burning of grass and garbage. In the fire safety rules in force in our country, it is written: "The territory of garden plots and cottages should be constantly kept clean and systematically cleaned of garbage."
Arbitrary piles of garbage, "pleasing" the eyes of vacationers, are very dangerous. They may turn out to be a Bickford cord that will set everything on fire. For the collection and disposal of waste and garbage in specially designated places (at a distance of at least 25 meters from buildings and structures), metal containers with closing lids must be installed.
Ideally, destroying garbage is not the task of summer residents, but of special services. So the main thing is to conclude a contract with such a service and dispose of waste in the proper place, and also make sure that random guests who decide to spend a weekend in your area also throw it there.
If you still decide to burn last year's grass and garbage, then follow the safety rules. Do not burn last year's grass and garbage directly at the dacha, do it in a metal barrel, in a safe place, under constant supervision and in calm weather.
Driveways to garden plots, dachas and fire-fighting water sources should always be free. So, before you decide to "slightly" expand the site at the expense of the road, remember that at a dangerous moment it can prevent a fire truck from driving to the fire center.
Press service of the Emergency department of the Almaty region