Fire service administration has done its noble duty to protect people’s lives and property from the various kinds of disasters like fire.
It has less developed then general administrative oragnization or police-organization, in spite of its long hi...
Fire service administration has done its noble duty to protect people’s lives and property from the various kinds of disasters like fire.
It has less developed then general administrative oragnization or police-organization, in spite of its long historical tradition.
The frequent changes of organization-mechanism or institution, and policy-makers' indifference may be the reason.
We are in the situation that we should constitute local
assemblies over all fields of local administration. we must regard this situation as a chance for the development of fire-ser ice administration.
This paper analyses and examines fire-service administration, the role of which is increasing in course of economical growth, industralization, and urbanization. There are a lot of problems in fire-service administration, as follows.
1) Duty-performance condition is very defective, because organizational system is irrational and specialization is insufficient.
2) Fire-service powers such as firehouse, fireman, eguipments, water facilities etc., and fire-service finance are limited.
3) Fire-service officials become demoralijed and their separation-rate is very high, because their working condition is very poor.
I intend to analyse this situation and to grope ways toward improvement.
This paper achieves some conclusions as follows.
1. The case of central organization : Fire-service administration must be reorganized and complemented. A status as 'general organization for disaster-preveution’ must be fixed, by means of upgrading present fire service bureau to office of fire service Administration Fire-service University and fire-service institute must be established.
2. The case of local organization:present fire-service department or fire-service division in each city and province should be enlarged to local fire-service administration office.
Fire-Academy should be build and fire station be established even to county level.
Organization-mechanism, status, and super intendence-system should be unified and working condition be improved, and then the duties of fire-service agency be streched from fire, firstaid, and rescue to all of the disaster-prevention.
2. We must frame a plan to install more fire-service officials, taking account of local condition of fire-service and city-planning. Then there won’t be a dead-angle Jone. Defective and old fire-fighting equipments should be imprdved and substituted.
Particularly, special suppressive equipments like fire-fighting helicopter and fire elevated-ladder engine should be purchased, and fire-fighting water-facilities be furnished. To guarantee the local finance, it is necessary that we achieve an institutional device, in which fire-fighting-joint-equipment-tax can be invested in fire-fighting equipment. Also, a new fire-fighting tax-source can be a strong financial support.
3. Special section for fire-survey and public information should be established in order to stimulate 'fire-prevention-consciousness’.
Institutes or associations relavant to fire-service must be brought up for the sake of people’s confidence in fire-service.
Besides, budget-security and investigation should be carried out for 'synthetic-data-processing-system'.
Special personnels and equiments for firstaid and rescue must be increased, so as to carry out the fire-service positively.
4.To promote the fire-service officials’ morale, three-parts system in labour will be good for Outside-workers.
‘Risk-allowance’ and 'mobilization allowance’ must be actualized. Most of fire-fighting officials are in the absurd state that their exploits can't be fully appreciated when they abandon their own lives to save other people in terrible fires.
Moreover, the reformation of relief and assistance system is necessary.
To accomplish there solutions, people’s interest in fire-service, policy-makers’ resolution, and all fire-service officials’ ardent effort are the essential elements.
This is the time when we can do something to realise above tasks, because we confront the age of local-self-government.