Nearly 4,000 organisations in capital Dhaka are under threat of fire accident, which include shopping malls, educational institutions, banks, hospitals, hotels and media organisations.
At different times, fire service inspected these buildings and gave warnings though no positive changes took place.
Fire service says these buildings do not have fire safety certificates.
Fire Service and Civil Defence carried out two fire inspections from Jan 12 till Jan 26 and Oct 26 till Nov 12.
During these times, it inspected 3,855 buildings and found 3,772 in fire risk.
The fire service visited 26 offices of media organizations and of them, 18 are within the high risk zone and six are in the risky area. Only BTV and Jamuna TV were found to have adequate fire safety.
Of the 433 hospitals, 173 are at high risk with 249 found to be risky.
To carry out the safety survey, water level under the buildings, width of the exit gates, fire detection materials and other issues were taken into account.
Director of Fire Service and Civil Defence A K M Shakil Newaz said: “We carried out the surveys in 2017 and gave them two warnings but they did not give any importance to it.”
Its Deputy Director Debashish Bardhan, said: “We told these institutions to ramp up their fire security but they paid no heed to our warnings.”
Several teams are working to ensure fire safety and we will take stern measures if any institution is found to be lacking proper fire safety.