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(1) All electricity lines and equipments shall be checked regularly and any fault therein shall be rectified without any delay. (2) All staff in-charge of offices and stores shall take a round of the offices and store rooms before they are closed for the night and satisfy themselves that everything is safe. (3) Fire shall be used in the workshops in properly constructed fireplaces and the senior officer, who locks up the prison, shall satisfy himself before leaving that these fires are properly extinguished. The concerned senior technical staff of the section shall also be responsible in this regard. (4) Piped LPG shall ordinarily be used in the prison, in case piped LPG supply is not available, it shall be ensured that gas cylinders are stored in a secured room in accordance with the safety rules for storage of LPG cylinders and that no prisoner has access to such place. If any fire occurs, nobody shall be allowed near the gas room until the fire is completely quelled. (5) There shall be fire hydrants and firefighting equipments (sand and water buckets) in all parts of the prison and especially at all vulnerable points decided in consultation with the District Fire Officer. (6) Electric installations in the prison shall be inspected at regular intervals. No loose wire and open junctions or joints shall be allowed. (7) Each Superintendent shall draw up instructions on fire safety and the drill to be adopted in his prison showing the respective duties of all members of the prison establishment on an alarm of fire being given. He shall make the staff rehearse the fire drill at least once in six months. This shall include firefighting safety measures and evacuation techniques. (8) In the event of a fire, immediate information to the fire brigade shall also be sent. Till help from the fire brigade is received, every attempt to quell the fire shall be made. In the event of fire breaking out in the prison by day or night, the alarm shall be sounded. In the event of fire in a ward, the first priority shall be to evacuate the prisoners from the ward and nearby buildings and put out the fire. (9) The Superintendent shall undertake all necessary measures to ensure that fire does not spread to other parts of the prison and the lives of prisoners and of members of the staff are not endangered. (10) No cooking shall be allowed. Coal stoves provided for heating food shall be placed outside the sleeping ward. No firewood or hay or other inflammable material shall be stored anywhere in the prisoner’s enclosure. Removal to a segregation building. EPIDEMICS