Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Fire Protection Law.
Article 5 All units and individuals have the obligation to maintain fire control safety, protect fire control facilities, prevent fires and report fire accidents. All units and adults have the obligation to participate in organized fire fighting.
Article 35 People's governments at all levels should strengthen the construction of fire control organizations, establish various forms of fire control organizations according to the needs of economic and social development, strengthen the training of fire control technicians, and improve the ability of fire prevention, fighting and emergency rescue.
Forty-first organs, organizations, enterprises, institutions and other units, as well as villagers' committees and residents' committees, set up various forms of fire control organizations such as volunteer fire brigades to carry out mass self-defense and self-help work.