Ensuring the smooth evacuation routes and safety exits is the top priority of fire management in units, especially in public places. "Evacuation passage" refers to walkways, stairs and corridors. "Safety exit" refers to the evacuation stairs or doors that meet the requirements of the national technical standards for fire protection of engineering buildings. Evacuation walkways and safety exits are the key points for people to escape in case of building fire. If the management is not good at ordinary times, articles are stacked in the passage, and the exit is locked or blocked, once a fire breaks out, it will often lead to a vicious accident in which many people are killed and injured. For example, when a fire broke out in the dance hall of Yiyuan City, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, one of the two exits was blocked with a width of 1.8 m, and more than 300 people could only escape from the other door with a width of 0.8 m, so they had to go up and down five steps. Results 233 people were burned and 265430 people were burned. For example, when a fire broke out in the Friendship Hall in Karamay, Xinjiang, only one of the eight exits of the auditorium was opened, causing 323 deaths and 130 burns. The lesson is painful.

The second paragraph of this article clearly stipulates that the residential area management unit shall perform the duties of fire safety management in residential areas. The "management unit" here refers to real estate management units and property management enterprises. , responsible for the implementation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph applicable to residential fire safety responsibilities. China is a country with a large population and dense housing. Especially in recent years, more and more residential quarters have been developed and constructed, many of which are high-rise buildings, and the fire safety of residential quarters involves thousands of households. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the fire safety responsibility of residential areas in this law and fill in the blank of fire safety responsibility.