Fire is a serious loss of national property, life and pose a serious threat to the people of the accident. Ship fire, the consequences are more serious, because the local small boat, equipment, focus, containing flammable liquids, and thus saves the conditions worse than the land, people are more land-based escape difficult. Meanwhile, a ship at sea, the river of fire, probably not near the rescue ship, although the neighborhood or ship, but storms and other weather conditions can not be close to the rescue. Which can only rely on their own strength rescue, for which all the crew and the ship concerned must maintain a high level of fire safety awareness and attention.
Analysis of the reasons for the ship fires, most of the work is due to dereliction of duty, sparse thinking, ideological paralysis, ignoring the fire safety system. According to incomplete statistics, ship fires, 2 / 3 occurred in port during loading and unloading cargo and ship repair. However, the specific reasons for the fire is multi-faceted, from the size of this year occurred in the Accident ship fire, mainly cigarette butts are litter; on the kitchen stove, electrical equipment, electric equipment, improper use; fails electrically Practice (gas) welding, cutting and other hot work industry; cables and electrical short circuit, overload or failure, rags, cotton waste caused by spontaneous combustion; loading and unloading outside the fire (such as cargo, not mixed with cigarette butts off; automotive friction fire; bank with lifting sparks; ro-ro ship within the car trouble, etc.), flammable liquids, gases, sparks or heat sources such as leakage encountered. In order to reduce the ship fires, as fire crews must always enhance the learning of knowledge and fire regulations, improve fire safety awareness, strict enforcement of fire safety system in the ship.