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Improvement of cultural heritage disaster management - The Case of Sungnyemun's Collapse in Fire - (문화재 재난관리의 필요성과 발전방향 - 숭례문 화재사고사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Han, Beum-Deuk
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.189-197
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    • 2008
  • The present study purposed to assert the necessity of cultural property disaster control through analyzing the fire of the Sungnyemun and to suggest directions for the development of cultural property disaster control in the future. For these purposes, we reviewed literature such as research papers and books on cultural property disaster control, and presented problems in current cultural property disaster control and solutions for the problems through case study of the fire of the Sungnyemun. In a word, the fire of the Sungnyemun is a representative case showing difficulty in disaster prevention activities for wooden cultural properties. Accordingly, we need to recognize the necessity of cultural property disaster control and to prepare measures. For this, first, it is essential to reinforce preventive systems against cultural property disasters. Second, early actions should be taken in consideration of the characteristics of each cultural property. Third, for cultural property disaster control, it is important to maintain cooperative relations among the Cultural Properties Administration, National Emergency Management Agency, and relevant local self.governing bodies. Lastly, standards for cultural property fire protection systems should be tightened by improving related laws, and institutional bases should be intensified through preparing grounds for aggravated punishment for crimes against cultural properties such as arsons.

A Study on the Activation·Specification of 119 Rescue & Care in JeJu (제주도 119구조·구급대의 활성화 및 전문화 방안)

  • Koh, Jae-Moon;Kim, Tae-Min;Kim, Hyo-Sik;Lee, Young-A
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.153-168
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    • 2002
  • Since 1992, conventional fire fighting businesses have been converted into a metropolitan autonomous fire fighting system to be ready for a variety of disasters. However, the corresponding investment has been overlapped due to the non-integration of businesses to prevent any potential disasters, and a series of collaborative systems have been not functioning so well. In the meantime, our fire fighting sector has been trying to set up its own clean and faithful position by abolishing any inconvenient system or outsourcing private sectors, and expanded its work scope from conventional fire fighting even to rescue and emergency works. While focusing on handling disaster, the fire fighting sector has been widely trusted and reliable throughtout our nation. Moreover, our fire fighting sector has secured nation wide mobile organizations, technical personnel by field, special equipments and independent communication network. In addition, the fire fighting sector has knowledges, expertise and capabilities required for managing disasters, while in charge of almost every disaster management works including fire, explosion, collapse, disaster and flood. It becomes an organization for comprehensive disaster management under an absolute national trust, which is based on the system for prevention, preparation and countermeasure against a variety of disasters. Thus, our fire fighting sector must make many efforts and try to modernize conventional education and training. The ways to facilitate rescue and emergency works may include the nurture of technical fire fighting personnel along with modernized equipments, the reinforcement of rescue and emergency education, the facilitation of operating civil defense corps, the facilitation of operating volunteer fire fighting corps, the better arrangement of 119 briefing room for public healthcare in provincial offices, the sterilization of rescue instruments and equipments the better repair education for emergency rescue member, the establishment of regional emergency assistant system and the expansion of fire fighting personnel and equipments. In terms of reinforcing the functions and services of rescue 119 and emergency corps, we must review the following considerations: Building up security system along with operational expansion, building up a system for emergency medical treatment, building up a comprehensive information management system for rescue and emergency, constructing a provincial safety museum and so forth. For the ways to better the works of rescue 119 we can review the following considerations : Improving the education for fire fighting training corps under Jeju Provincial Fire and Disaster Management Department, providing rescue members with more opportunities for clinical practices, enhancing the morale of rescue members, installing a comprehensive briefing room for emergency rescue members, building up medical networks along with reasonable policies for information service, operating the consulting system for rescue 119 and so on. If these requirements are met, it is expected that the fire fighting departments in Jeju province can cope with every accident and disaster a little more rapidly and quickly in compliance with local needs, so that they can keep their own position as a public fire fighting organization which may be trusted by the public.

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A Survey on Present Condition of Fire Safety Management of Elderly care Facilities for Evacuation Safety Design (피난안전설계를 위한 노인요양시설의 소방안전관리 실태 조사)

  • Hong, Hae-Ri;Seo, Dong-Goo;Kim, Dong-Eun;Kwon, Young-Sook;Park, Hyun-Sik;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.272-275
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구는 고령자시설의 현황과 고령자의 군집보행속도를 조사한 전보에 이어 고령자를 고려한 피난안전설계를 위한 기초연구로서 노인요양시설의 근무자의 소방안전관리실태에 관한 설문조사를 실시 및 분석하였으며 그 결과 화재시 재실자의 피난가능여부와 소방서와의 연락체계에 관한 질문에서 초기피난의 문제점을 도출할 수 있었으며 노인요양시설의 비상구 및 주야간 상시 관리자 수 및 피난시설에서 대응책이 필요할 것으로 사료되어 향후 체계적인 피난안전계획의 구축이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

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Estimation of Flame Temperature Ejected from the Opening for the Development of Urban Fires Simulation. (도시화재 시뮬레이션 구축을 위한 개구분출화재의 온도 예측)

  • Kim, Nam-Hyuk;Shin, Yi-Chul;Koo, In-Hyuk;Nam, Dong-Gun;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.346-350
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    • 2010
  • 도시화재의 연소 확대성상을 모델화하기 위해 화재실의 개구를 통하여 분출하는 열기류의 온도 평가 실험을 실시하였다. 실험은 축소모형 형태로 개구 조건과 화원조건에 의해 진행이 되었다. 실험 결과 온도분포 Trajectory는 개구종횡비 n에 의해 횡정(橫井)의 연구결과와 비교하여 n=2일때를 제외하고는 다른 경향을 나타냈다. 동일 조건에서 분출화재보유열량 $Q_{ef}$은 개구 조건이 횡장창($B0.2m{\times}H0.1m$)이고, 단일개구일 때 가장 높은 값을 나타냈다. 또한, 분출화재의 발생 한계 발열속도 $Q_{verit}$에서도 굴웅아(堀雄児)의 연구와 유사한 결과를 보이며, 다른 개구조건보다 횡장창($B0.2m{\times}H0.1m$)일 때 높은 값을 나타냈다.

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Study on the strengthening of community safety Network through volunteer fire department training program reengineering (의용소방대 교육프로그램 재설계를 통한 지역사회 안전 Network기능 강화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Chan-Seok;Oh, Taek-Hum;Yoon, Myoung-Oh
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2013
  • Korean Volunteer Fire Departments are the representative disaster-related civilian organizations which are based on "Firefighting Framework Act Article 37"and ordinance for complementing the lack of fire-fighting personnel and volunteer and they play a part as community safety keepers. They are operated by the National funding, but cannot be defined as the organization in governmental sources completely or pure volunteer organization in terms of its founding purpose and activities. In these special characteristics, some Volunteer Fire Departments play an important role in Civilian Volunteer Disaster Prevention by being managed effectively, but the others do not. There can be many cause-analyses about this difference. They aren't profit-making organizations and are groups which have no compulsion. So it is important that who the leader is, and what type of leadership he has. By solving this bias by considering these characteristics, in this study we make them perform the center role of community safety network through analyzing the existing status and problems of volunteer fire department education and customized training program reengineering to meet class-specific and regional level.

Preventing disaster system of the subaqueous tunnel under the Han river in the Bundang railway (분당선 한강 하저터널의 방재시스템)

  • Kim Yong-Il;Hwang Nak-Yeon;Yoon Young-Hoon;Jie Hong-Keun;Jang Sung-Wook;Kim Dong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.308-327
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    • 2004
  • As use of tunnels and subways increase there also are accidents proportionate to it. Daegu Subway Station fire, Hongjimoon tunnel fire led people to be conscious of disaster protection and as a result, there is a trend to adopt standards for fire protection. Accordingly, this thesis is focused on investigating various fire and water protection related issues for subaqueous tunnel under Ran river. The thesis developed evacuation and disaster prevention plan as fire level increases and have identified the suitability of disaster prevention through evacuation and fire simulation, countermeasure of a water leakage during construction and operation considering the subaqueous tunnel. And we selected EPB shield TBM equipment considering the ground condition and effect of boring hole, and accomplished reasonable water protection design through setting goals using event-tree method, as well as examining model test of boring hole and flooding in heavy rain. Also included structured total system consist of water leakage sensing system, water protection gate, pumping system and fire protection system to respond systematically in emergency.

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Predefined Access Routes for Quick Response to Disaster Areas (방재경로 구축방안에 관한 연구 (지구단위 방재경로를 중심으로))

  • Jo, Yong-Chan;Lee, Chang-Ju;Sin, Seong-Il
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2007
  • In this research, in order to more concretely define the concept of the previously vaguely defined fire road, the authors propose new terminology called disaster prevention routes. These are defined as predefined access routes for the quick response to disaster areas. For this, the authors suggest selection techniques for disaster prevention routes considering characteristics of fire trucks and selected areas. The paper also includes legally-based ideas for the executive departments with exclusive responsibility for continuous management and supervision of disaster response. In addition, a case study is performed with a virtual scenario including the outbreak of fire in one borough of Seoul. This case study shows that the damage can be decreased by prompt access of fire trucks. The establishment of predefined access routes to disaster areas can help to protect citizens with more rapid response by emergency crews. Indirect benefits also include reduced congestion of roads through the prohibition of parking and stopping on the chosen roads.

A Study on Safety Policies Toward Aging Society (고령화사회를 대비한 소방방재정책에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Eui-Pyeong
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1 s.57
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    • pp.29-45
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    • 2005
  • Korean society became an 'aging society' in 2000 years with a population of 65 years and over occupying $7.2\%$ of the whole population. And we expect that a population of 65 years and over will occupy $14.4\%$ in 2019 years, so Korean society will enter into an 'aged society' Older adults can't react correctly and rapidly to the disaster due to the decline of the physical function, therefore victims of older adults due to the disaster will increase as much as aging proceeds. For reducing sacrifices of older adults due to the disaster, 1 suggest that the propulsion of the disaster service policy for disaster week people like older adults, the policy of minimizing casualties due to fires, reinforcement of fire resources and enlargement of disaster services in rural communities, offering information about disaster services and reinforcement of functions of public relations, making new connection systems (e.g. educating welfare and post officials as volunteer fire officials), supplement of fire fighters, and the policy of lightening fire equipments.

Basic Study for Improving the Fire Safety of Postpartum Care Centers (산후조리원의 화재안전성 향상을 위한 기초연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Won;Jin, Seung-Hyeon;Kim, Si-Kuk;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.138-146
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    • 2019
  • The present article reports the results of a basic study for improving the fire safety of postpartum care centers. In the case of postnatal care center facilities, newborn babies and mothers reside 24 hours a day, and as they are located in high-rise and multi-use facilities, measures for fire safety are necessary, but there are no domestic manuals. This study examined the problems of fire safety through an analysis of fire cases of postpartum care facilities and related regulations, and conducted surveys on the fire safety consciousness of employees and mothers regarding postpartum care management. The fire safety consciousness of the mother was analyzed.

A Study on the Structural Fire Resistance Performance Design of RC Structural according to the Explosive Spalling - The Investigate Study on the PBD for Fire Resistance - (폭렬현상을 고려한 RC구조물의 PBD기반 구조내화설계 기술개발에 관한 연구(II) - PBD기반 구축을 위한 조사연구 -)

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Kim, Se-Jong;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.202-209
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    • 2008
  • Performance based fire engineering design is being adopted around the world as a rationed means of providing efficient and effective fire safety in Building. This development is being supported by the adoption of performance based codes which specify the objective and minimum performance requirements for fire safety traditional design for fire safety which is still practiced in many countries, relies on "prescriptive" codes which specify how a building is to be built, which no statement of objective and little or no opportunity to offer more rational alterative design. It is the aim of this study to investigate and analyze the research direction of structural fire resistance design of RC structures for recommendation of PBD in Korea.

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