Summary of Fire Emergency Preparedness in First Half of 2019

①Fires due to stoves increased! injured has also increased the number of deaths due to stoves!
・The number of fires caused by stoves increased by 14 from the previous year. The number of fire deaths from stoves increased by two from the previous year, and injured was eight.
・The top cause of the fire in a house fire is a fire caused by a stove, and fires often occur due to leaving the place while cooking fried foods.
② Both the number of emergency participations and the number of transport personnel increased at a faster pace than last year, which was a record high!
・The number of emergency participations in the first half of 2019 was 102,138, an increase of 3,291 (3.3%) from the same period of the previous year, and the number of transport personnel was 87,766, an increase of 2,474 (2.9%) from the same period of the previous year, each of which was the highest ever.
・Especially in January, the number of emergency participations increased significantly (20,886, 1,473, or 7.6% year-on-year), and the number of emergency participations in a month exceeded 20,000 for the first time.