China News Network, Xichang, March 31 (Wang Peng, Chen Xuanbin, Zeng Peng). Reporters learned on the 31st from the forest fire scene in Xichang, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The fire on the western front of the Xichang forest fire that occurred on the afternoon of the 30th was extinguished at 6:00 that day The fire rescue force successfully safeguarded the safety of the life and property of Xichang City's Madaochangkou Liquefied Gas Station and the people of Xichang City.
The reporter saw at about 8 o'clock on the 31st at the mountainside of Laoshan that had previously caught fire. After the fire rescue force worked hard to extinguish the fire overnight, there were no open flames at the scene of the forest fire. There were still many smoke points. The fire rescue force was carrying water by helicopter. Put out fire.
In the early morning of the 31st, the fire at the scene of the LPG station. Photo by Yuan Lu
According to the Sichuan Forest Fire Corps, at 6 o’clock on the 31st, 260 firefighting commanders of the Sichuan Forest Fire Corps fought all night and the forest fire on the western line of the Daying Farm in Xichang City at 15:51 on the 30th was extinguished. The fire line was recently Xichang City's Madaochangkou LPG Station with a storage capacity of 800 cubic meters is less than 100 meters.
After receiving the fire report, the Sichuan Forest Fire Corps sent 50 commanders from the Liangshan Prefecture Forest Fire Detachment team to fight in two groups. One team cooperated with the fire rescue team to set up water pumps in the yard of the gas station and was always ready to deal with the fire. The other group carried equipment such as chainsaws and machetes to open isolation zones in the forest area around the gas station.
At about 20:00 on the 30th, after the erection of the fire pumps of the Liangshan Forestry Fire Brigade was completed, 50 commanders adopted a combination of opening isolation zones and spraying and cooling water to remove nearby forests and ground combustible materials and reduce the surface temperature of liquefied gas tanks.
At 21:40 on the 30th, the forest fire detachment of Panzhihua City, which was reinforced, set up a pump to stop the forest fire from spreading to the LPG reserve station.
At about 9 am on the 31st, the dangerous LPG station was temporarily suspended. Photo by Wang Peng
At 1:50 in the morning of the 31st, Jindecheng Political Commissar of Sichuan Forestry Fire Corps arrived at the LPG reserve station and adjusted his force deployment based on the low temperature of the fire site and the weakening of the fire situation. The 50 commanders of the Liangshan Prefecture Forest Fire Detachment were transferred to the horse road in Madao Town. On the other side of the village's group of fire fields, they cooperated with the Panzhihua Forest Fire Fighting Unit to take advantage of the low temperature and low wind in the early morning to adopt a combination of water fire extinguishing and conventional machine beating.
At about 3 am on the 31st, 81 commanders from the training brigade, emergency communications and vehicle service support corps and emergency rescue unit of the head office of the rush team from Chengdu also put in the fire field to fight the fire.
At 6 o'clock on the 31st, the open flames that threatened the LPG station at Madaochangkou were successfully extinguished and have now been handed over to local guards. The team will continue to fight in the direction of Bishan Guangfu Temple.
At 8 am on the 31st, the Mingshan Forest Fire scene had no visible fire. Photo by Wang Peng
According to the Sichuan Fire Rescue Corps, fires have a tendency to threaten some buildings below the mountain due to strong winds. The Sichuan Provincial Fire Rescue Corps has dispatched 14 detachments of Chengdu, Mianyang, Zigong, Panzhihua, Luzhou, Ya'an, Leshan, Deyang, Meishan, Suining, Neijiang, Nanchong, Ziyang, Liangshan, etc. to a total of 174 vehicles, 905 people, and 6 remote water supply systems to the reinforcements. .
As of 6:00 on March 31, Liu Fude, head of the Sichuan Fire Rescue Corps, led the team's full-time headquarters with 11 people in 3 vehicles and reached the front command of the gas storage station in Madao Town, Xichang City. Chengdu (first batch), Panzhihua, Deyang, Ziyang, Meishan, Ya'an, Leshan, Liangshan and other eight detachments totaling 129 vehicles, 556 people, and 4 remote water supply systems have arrived at the scene. Xichang City has a total of 9 stand-by positions. There is 1 garrison point in Lixian County.
At present, rescue work is being carried out in an orderly manner. (Finish)