It would not be an exaggeration to describe fire as a social, financial, and psychological problem that we could encounter at any moment—especially regarding electricity, which is one of the leading causes of such disasters that no one wishes to experience.
A fire occurring at a neighbor’s house, a nearby factory, or a forest area will affect you first through its environmental impact, and sometimes it may even burn your home or assets. The reason I call fire a social disaster is precisely because it can spread to you even if you have taken every possible precaution within your own property.
The Regulation on the Protection of Buildings from Fire, which came into force after being published in the Official Gazette No. 26735 on December 19, 2007, determines the procedures and principles for measures to be taken before and during a fire. It aims to minimize fires during the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and use of all types of structures used by public and private entities, ensuring that any fire is extinguished with minimum loss of life and property.
While the financial and psychological damages are significant, there is also the dimension of loss of life! The electrical fire that recently occurred in the Aladağ district of Adana, costing the lives of 11 of our children, created a great public outcry and revealed how insufficient the current fire regulations are.
Technical individuals, who are unaware that the fire protection relay (300mA) and residual current device (30mA) mandated by regulations are useless on their own in cases such as a neutral line break, misinformed the public by saying, “It wouldn’t have happened if there was an RCD/Fire relay.” But who are these people claiming an RCD would have prevented it, even though there is not a single domestic manufacturer of RCDs in our country?
As ELYAK (Association for Protection from Electrical Fires and Damages), we do not deal with individuals, so there is no need for further detail there. However, since providing such ignorant or intentionally false information causes the solution to be constantly delayed, we must announce the R&D work conducted on this matter. An engineering team in our country, which I lead, has been producing surge suppressors for 12 years that prevent such problems by forcing the RCD to trip during a neutral break. Furthermore, these surge suppressors—or new generation surge arresters—which sacrifice themselves under the worst conditions to prevent a disaster even if an RCD is not present, were already mandatory by regulation.
When you look at the parliamentary research commission reports for the fire known publicly as the Aladağ tragedy, you can read about real issues such as the fire escape door being locked or ending 2 meters above the ground. But what is the situation in high-rise buildings? Many don’t even have fire escapes, and even if they did, how would someone descend from the 40th or 50th floor? What would happen if that person were disabled?
Actually, the answer is within the problem itself and is quite simple: find out why the fire started and how to prevent it from starting again! Don’t you think it is time to value “how to prevent a fire from starting” and “how to conduct R&D for prevention” as much as we value “how to extinguish a fire” or “how to escape it”?
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