Fuling Nanchuan Mountain Fire has all been extinguished with no casualties

　　Hualong.com-New Chongqing Client News On August 17 and 18, wildfires broke out in Fuling District and Nanchuan District one after another, and rescue forces at the city and district levels immediately launched firefighting and rescue work.

As of 8:00 on August 20, the open flames of the four fires have been extinguished, and no casualties have been reported.

　　It is understood that at about 18:28 and 20:30 on August 17, a mountain fire broke out in the mountains and forests of Lizhi Street and Jiangbei Street in Fuling District.

At about 10:26 and 13:37 on August 18, mountain fires also broke out in the forests of Shentong Town and Sanquan Town in Nanchuan District.

　　After the mountain fire broke out, the municipal party committee and the municipal government attached great importance to the rescue work. The main leaders made arrangements as soon as possible, quickly established the fire fighting headquarters, unified dispatching the rescue work, and deployed the Municipal Emergency Air Rescue Corps and the urban two-level professional emergency rescue and rescue teams. Forest firefighters and equipment, and organized more than 3,000 local armed police firefighters to carry out scientific rescue operations.

　　Due to the continuous high temperature in Chongqing, the vegetation in the mountains and forests is dry and flammable. In addition, the four wildfire sites are all mountainous, with steep terrain and strong wind, making it difficult and time-consuming to fight.

After the rescue forces at the two levels in the city worked hard to put out the fire, the four open fires were extinguished at 13:00 and 17:00 on August 19, and at 8:00 and 8:10 on August 20. No casualties were reported, and no surrounding houses were found. Affected.

　　After preliminary cleaning and statistics, the two wildfires in Fuling District are estimated to have burned an area of ​​about 500 mu and 300 mu. The cause of the fire was initially identified as the aboriginal old man burning wild bee bags and the civil wire broke and caught fire under high temperature and strong winds.

The two wildfires in Nanchuan District are estimated to have burned an area of ​​about 55 mu and 75 mu. The preliminary analysis of the cause of the fire is the spontaneous combustion of dry litter and leaves at high temperature and the excessive load of an enterprise's power line.

At present, local rescuers are carrying out smoke point removal and inspection observations to prevent the fire from re-igniting.