By Chung Li-hua and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerMore than 1,000 cultural heritage sites nationwide do not have an accident emergency plan in place, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Ho Chih-wei (何志偉) said yesterday, urging government agencies to protect the nation’s cultural assets. It is concerning that following the restoration, no emergency plans for fires have been proposed yet, he added. Ho called on the Ministry of Culture’s Bureau of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of the Interior’s National Fire Agency to implement stricter measures on local culture authorities to follow the law and take measures to protect cultural heritage sites. Modern fire control facilities often cannot be installed due to heritage preservation regulations, and the infrastructure and management of electricity at historical sites differ from regular buildings, he said. When it comes to the management and prevention of accidents at historical sites, a binding legal force on the execution is still lacking, the Bureau of Cultural Heritage said.
