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Title: Fire Services Act CH
Category: Ministry of the Interior(內政部)
Chapter Three: Rescue Operation
Article 16
(Setup of Rescue Command Headquarters)
Each level of fire department shall set up a rescue command headquarters to be in charge of command, mobilization, control and communication for things and matters required for fire fighting and providing first aid.
Article 17
(Establishment of Fire Hydrant)
When required by fire control, the municipal, and county/city governments shall join the water supply company to select each proper location for the establishment of a fire hydrant at the cost to be reasonably subsidized by the municipal, county/city governments, and town office while the maintenance of the fire hydrant shall be provided by the water supply company.
Article 18
Telecommunications businesses should set up reporting telephone facilities as required by firefighting needs.
No one may call the authority's reporting telephone without reason, or falsely report fires, disasters, lifesaving, emergency aid situations.
The competent authority can ask telecommunications businesses to provide communication records and relevant personal information of those waiting to be rescued in order to carry out fire, disaster relief, lifesaving, or emergency aid tasks. Telecommunication businesses may not refuse.
The competent authority and telecommunications businesses' staff involved in the operation related to the aforementioned information shall keep the process and the content of the known information confidential and shall not disclose it without justified reasons.
Article 19
Firefighters may enter, use, damage, or damage the people’s land, buildings, vehicles, and other objects without entering, using, damaging, or restricting such use, and cannot reach the purpose of emergency and rescue.
Any civilian sustaining property loss of a particular sacrifice as a result of using or destroying, or restricting the use of any land, building, vehicle and/or any other things pursuant to the preceding paragraph, may claim for loss compensation. However, if such loss is attributed to the civilian, the loss compensation claimed will not be accepted.
Article 19-1
When the following places experience a fire, explosion, leakage of public hazardous materials or combustible high-pressure gas, the person in charge should immediately report to the object, method, and content specified and announced by the central competent authority:
Factory areas of petroleum refining, petroleum chemical raw material manufacturing, synthetic resin and plastic manufacturing, plastic product manufacturing.
Factory areas where the total manufacture, storage, or handling of public dangerous goods exceeds three thousand times the controlled amount or other areas announced by the competent authority.
When personnel, vehicles, and equipment of the competent authority enter the places mentioned above, the person in charge of the place and the personnel on the scene must not evade, obstruct, or refuse.
Article 20
(Fire Line)
The commander of firemen may specify a fire line to the peripheral of the fire site to limit entry of any person and vehicle; and may evacuate or have a mandatory evacuation of any and all persons and vehicles within the area defined by the fire line.
Article 20-1
(Right to withdraw from dangerous relief rescue)
Rescue teams on the site should take appropriate rescue after pondering over the rescue goal and risk under the consideration of disaster relief safety; If there is no danger of human life at the site, dangerous relief rescue may not be performed.
Article 21
(Use of Water Supply Source)
For the purpose of fire control, the commander of firemen may use any kind of water supply sources available nearby and notify the water supply company to concentrate on supplying water to the fire site.
Article 21-1
(When the factory fires, the administrators of the factory shall provide necessary rescue information and assign specially assigned person to the site to assist the fire commander)
When a fire commander size up in factory fire site, the administrators of the factory shall provide help in accordance with the following regulations
1. Providing necessary rescue information and chemical layout including types, quantities of the factory.
2. Assigning specially assigned person to the site to assist the fire commander.
Article 22
(Interruption of Power and Gas Sources)
To prevent extension and expansion of fire and as deemed necessarily, the commander of firemen may respectively notify the power company and the gas company to immediately cut of their supplies to the fire site.
Article 23
(Control Area)
Upon finding or being notified of any public hazardous material, or pressurized gas that appears to present risks of fire and/or explosion may specify the control area to limit entry of person and vehicle, prescribe mandatory evacuation; and may limit or restrict use of any ignition source.
Article 24
(Organization of Rescue Team)
Municipal, county/city fire department shall as applicable establish a rescue team, supplied with vehicles and medical personnel to provide first aid service.
Vehicles, equipment, and manpower allocation standards as well as first aid service procedure shall be set forth jointly by the central regulating authorities and the public sector regulating authorities.
Article 25
(Coordination of Rescue Operation)
In case of any Act or God, airplane crash, mining accident, forest fire, car accident and any other major hazard, the municipal, county/city fire departments shall promptly joint the rescue operation and provide first aid service.