fire extinguisher is a powerful tool to suppress the spread of fire and can protect people's lives and property to the greatest extent before professional firefighters arrive. In order to make profits, some businesses do not hesitate to cut corners in the production of fire extinguishers, causing huge hidden dangers to social safety.
At the CCTV 315 Party, it was exposed that fire extinguishers sold in a well-known hardware and electrical market in Central China were cutting corners. The screen shows that a salesperson at the Hardware Dingsheng Transportation Equipment Fire Equipment Wholesale Store told reporters: "If you get a bottle of 30 yuan, I can guarantee you that you will not be able to put out the fire. The more you put out the fire, the bigger it gets. To tell you the truth."
Suspected of cutting corners on fire extinguisher. Picture/CCTV Finance
According to the national standard gb4066-2017 dry powder fire extinguishing agent, the main component of abc dry powder fire extinguishing agent is ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, with a content of 75%. The reporter found that the content of ammonium dihydrogen phosphate in some shoddy fire extinguishers sold in some stores was secretly reduced from 75% to 50%, or even to 20%.
Hunan Zhuzhou Minxiang Fire Fighting Equipment Co., Ltd. is a company specializing in the production of fire extinguishers. When the reporter walked into the production workshop, the person in charge told the reporter that he could customize non-standard fire extinguishers here. The person in charge of production of Chuangyi Fire Equipment Co., Ltd. said: "If we don't tell the contents of the fire extinguisher, no one will know."
That night, Jiupai News called the hardware Dingsheng Transportation Facility Fire Equipment Wholesale Store as a citizen. The other party said that he knew he was on 315 and was watching the live broadcast, but denied selling fire extinguishers with cut corners. "Now all we sell are national standard fire extinguishers."
Jiupai News tried to contact other stores involved, but no one responded. Subsequently, Jiupai News called the local Municipal Supervision Bureau, but no one answered.
According to Qichacha, Hunan Zhuzhou Minxiang Fire Fighting Equipment Co., Ltd. was established on August 25, 2021, with a registered capital of 20 million yuan, and the legal person Zheng Lijun. The company has applied for a patent for high-temperature resistant self-extinguishing shock absorbers.
Jiupai News noticed that this is not the first time that fake fire extinguishers have appeared on the market. According to Chao News, in August 2023, the Public Security Bureau of Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province uncovered a large-scale case of producing and selling counterfeit dry powder fire extinguishers.
The Lianhe County Fire Brigade of the local Public Security Bureau found that the purchase price of a new batch of fire extinguishers in a community was significantly lower than the market price. After sampling and testing more than 2,000 fire extinguishers in this batch, it was found that the content of ammonium dihydrogen phosphate in this batch of extinguishers was , the thickness of the tank is far lower than the national standard, posing great fire safety risks.
According to multiple days of continuous investigation, the police of the task force destroyed 2 production dens, 2 production lines, and 4 warehouses. They seized and seized more than 50,000 counterfeit finished fire extinguishers and tanks, and more than 30 tons of dry powder materials that did not meet standards. More than 6,000 people were involved in the case. million, and 10 suspects were arrested. After the
suspects were brought to justice, they confessed that in order to obtain greater profits, they only added 50% or even 20% ammonium dihydrogen phosphate in the dry powder production process, and used unqualified tanks with a thickness of only 0.83 mm, and then used fake fire extinguishers with The products are sold to more than ten provinces and cities across the country at prices lower than the market price.
Jiupai News 315 Reporting Team Reporter Yang Zhen Huang Jialiang
Editor Ren Zhuo
[Source: Jiupai News]
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