Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters Opens 'Fire Safety Maru' at Suwon Paldalsan... Operations Begin from the 9th

Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters Exterior View

The Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters is ending its 28-year era in Gwonseon-dong, Suwon City, and will begin operations on the 9th at the ‘Gyeonggi-do Fire Safety Maru,’ a fire safety complex building established in the old Gyeonggi Provincial Council building in Paldal-gu.

The new fire and disaster headquarters building spans from basement level 1 to the 5th floor above ground, with a total floor area of 19,359㎡. The basement level 1 houses equipment storage warehouses to support various field activities, floors 2 to 3 contain office spaces, and the 4th floor includes a multipurpose space such as a video conference room.

Earlier, Gyeonggi-do became the first in the nation to promote the construction of the ‘Gyeonggi-do Fire Safety Maru,’ a fire safety complex building that gathers six facilities in one place, including the fire and disaster headquarters, a safety control center, a safety experience center, a trauma center, and a fire history museum, starting from the end of last year.

From April to August, remodeling work was carried out on the old provincial council building, and recently all administrative departments except the 119 comprehensive situation room of the fire and disaster headquarters were relocated.

Gyeonggi-do plans to open cultural and experiential facilities for residents, such as the safety experience center and the fire and council history museums, sequentially in the second phase around February next year. In April of the same year, the 119 comprehensive situation room, the safety control center, will move to the current complex building.

Once the fire and disaster headquarters completes the move to the safety control center next year, the complex building is expected to house about 500 on-site staff and welcome approximately 50,000 visitors annually, greatly contributing to revitalizing the local economy, which had been weakened by the relocation of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Office to Gwanggyo.

Jo Seon-ho, head of the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters, stated, "The fire and disaster headquarters newly located at Paldalsan, imbued with King Jeongjo’s spirit of caring for the people, will do its utmost to make Gyeonggi-do safer," adding, "We will ensure that the construction of the fire safety complex building, which is an opportunity to dramatically raise the safety culture level of residents, proceeds without any setbacks until the very end."

Meanwhile, Gyeonggi-do has been continuously reviewing plans to expand the building over the past decade to improve efficient response capabilities to changes in disaster environments such as population structure, climate change, and new infectious diseases. Following Governor Kim Dong-yeon’s directive to create a fire complex building model that involves residents, the relocation was pursued.