LAW ON FIRE PREVENTION AND FIGHTING

No: 27/2001/QH10

Article 20.- Fire prevention for establishments

1. Establishments locating on a certain area, having managers, operating and requiring independent fire prevention and fighting plans shall have to satisfy the following basic requirements:

a/ Having regulations and rules on fire prevention and fighting safety;

b/ Having measures for fire prevention;

c/ Having fire-alarming, -fighting and -insulating systems suited to the nature of the establishments operations;

d/ Having forces, means and other conditions meeting the requirements on fire prevention and fighting;

e/ Having plans for fire fighting, escape, rescue of people and properties and against fire spread;

f/ Earmarking fund for fire prevention and fighting activities;

g/ Having dossiers for monitoring and managing fire prevention and fighting activities.

2. For other establishments, they shall have to meet the fire prevention and fighting requirements stipulated in Clause 1 of this Article according to the scope and nature of their operations.

3. Subjects prescribed in Articles from 21 to 28 of this Law shall, besides meeting the fire prevention requirements stipulated in Clause 1 of this Article, have to apply their own particular fire prevention and fighting measures.

Article 33.- Responsibility for fire fighting and participation therein

1. People who detect a fire shall have, by all means, alarm it as soon as possible and fight it; agencies, organizations, households and individuals near the fire shall have to quickly notify it and take part in fire fighting.

2. Fire prevention and fighting forces shall, when receiving fire alarms in localities under their respective management or mobilization orders, have to immediately come to fight the fires; if receiving fire alarms outside the areas under their management, they shall have to notify the fire prevention and fighting forces in the concerned areas thereof, and at the same time report such to their superior agencies.

3. The medical agencies, agencies in charge of power supply, water supply, urban environment and traffic as well as the concerned agencies, when receiving requests from fire-fighting commanders, shall have to quickly send their personnel and means to the fires in service of fire fighting

4. The police, militia and self-defense forces shall have to maintain order, protect the fire-fighting area and take part in fire fighting.