Safe use of gas boilers

Since the beginning of 2023, 445 fires have been registered in the West Kazakhstan region, of the total number of fires, 47 cases occurred with heating stoves. It does not matter whether the furnace is heated with wood or gas, you need to know the threat of malfunction of the furnaces. Employees of the Department of Emergency Situations are conducting preventive measures to explain fire safety rules to residents of residential buildings, but the problem remains.Residents of private residential buildings and apartments, as well as heads of organizations should remember that non-compliance with fire safety requirements in residential buildings and other buildings can lead to death and loss of property.It is necessary to know the rules for using heating stoves:1. inform the gas service by the number "104" about the malfunction;2. in order not to be poisoned by carbon monoxide, ventilate the room;3. turn off the gas supply to the heating boiler;4. it is forbidden to supply fuel (gas) with extinguished nozzles or gas burners;5. Clean pipes and furnaces from soot and ice;6. do not allow cracks and chips in the chimneys of stone stoves;7. before the start of the heating period, repair the furnace and the wall where the smoke duct is located;8. do not leave unattended burning stoves, as well as instruct children to supervise them;9. put fuel and other combustible substances and materials in front of the heating furnace;10. it is impossible to ignite the furnace with gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel and other LVZH and GZH;11. do not close the valve of the smoke channel until the coals burn out completely;12. Stoves and other heating devices must have fire-fighting cuts (indentations) from combustible structures, as well as without burnouts, and damage to a pre-heating metal sheet with a size of at least 0.5 m x 0.7 m. (on a wooden or other floor made of combustible materials);13. Ash and slag from the furnaces must be watered and removed to a safe place.14. it is impossible to work with faulty or disconnected control and regulation devices, as well as in their absence;15. dry any combustible materials on stoves and chimneys;16. use ventilation and gas ducts as chimneys;17. re-pump the furnaces.18. installation of metal furnaces that do not meet the requirements of fire safety, standards and specifications is not allowed;19. metal furnaces should be installed at a distance of at least 1 m. from wooden structures and furniture, at least 0.7 m. from structures protected from fire, and 1.25 m. from furnace openings to wooden structures and furniture.20. combustible floors under furnaces should be insulated with one row of bricks laid flat on clay mortar or asbestos cardboard 0.012 m thick. with roofing steel sheathing on top;21. in attics, all chimneys and walls in which smoke channels pass must be whitewashed.  Departments of the State Fire control of the Emergency Department of the West Kazakhstan Region