China News Service, Chengdu, March 17 (Reporter Liu Zhongjun) The forest fire frontline headquarters in Xuewalong Town, Jiulong County, Sichuan revealed late on the night of the 16th that all forest fires caused by lightning strikes due to strong convective weather have been extinguished, and the fire scene has achieved "three nos." ".
Rescuers thoroughly cleaned up the fire scene.
Photo by Jiang Xing
At 20:57 on March 14, a forest fire was triggered by a lightning strike on the mountaintop of Ear Village, Xuewalong Town, Jiulong County, Sichuan Province. The fire line was north-south. The fire field was 120 meters long from east to west and 114 meters long from north to south.
The fire site is nearly 3,200 meters above sea level, surrounded by miscellaneous shrubs and high mountain pine. The ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the mountains are steep. The average slope is above 60 degrees, and the instantaneous wind reaches up to 5 to 6, which brings great difficulties to the rescue work.
There are no residential areas, villages, schools and important facilities in and around the fire site.
Rescuers remained on the fire scene at night.
Photo by Tashi
After the fire broke out, Sichuan Province, Ganzi Prefecture, and Jiulong County attached great importance to it and quickly launched dispatching and commanding of fire fighting work.
The governor of the Ganzi Prefecture People's Government and the commander of the Forest and Grassland Fire Fighting Command Xiao Youcai led a working group to the front line of the fire scene to direct and guide the fire fighting work.
At the same time, based on the existing 229 rescuers, 50 professional firefighting teams in Kangding City and Yajiang County were increased, carrying 15 or more pumps and other materials to urgently reinforce the fire, and the east, south, and north three-line water pump operations were combined. Combine the ground-to-air cooperation with helicopter bucket operations to fight the fire.
Rescuers are delivering fire-extinguishing water through water pumps.
Photo by Tashi
At 7 o'clock on the 16th, the forest fire front-line headquarters in Xuewalong Town, Jiulong County seized the favorable opportunity to promptly command and dispatch three rescue teams to the mission area using the “three lines of southeast and north” fighting situation, together with the 3 aircraft dispatched by the China Southern Airlines Forest Guard Station. Helicopters coordinated operations to carry out rescue missions and launched a general attack on the fire scene.
Rescuers overcome the disadvantages of high hills, steep slopes, vertical ravines, and shrubs. They set up 27 water pumps and laid water belts for nearly 2.6 kilometers. They opened a breakthrough on the northeast side of the fire site and adopted a "one-point breakthrough, two-wing propulsion" warfare. The law implements a comprehensive swat clean-up of the fire scene.
Rescuers use water pumps to clean up the fire scene.
Photo by Leilei
At 16:35 on the 16th, rescuers used a combination of water pumps to extinguish fires and conventional machinery to achieve one stage of fighting and cleaning up one stage, and the fire scene successfully realized the "three nos".
At present, Jiulong County has sent 100 professional rescuers to stay at the fire site and set up 4 observation points at the same time. Each observation point sent 2 to 3 people to take turns to observe for 24 hours to prevent the fire scene from reigniting.
(Finish)