China News Service, Beijing, November 1st (Wei Xianghui) The 31st National Fire Protection Day will come on November 9th.
This year marks the fourth year of reform and transformation of the national comprehensive fire rescue team.
On October 31, the Ministry of Emergency Management held a press conference to introduce the construction and development achievements of the national comprehensive fire rescue team after the transformation and reform in the past four years, and made relevant judgments on the forest fire prevention situation this winter.
Data map: Forest firefighters are explaining popular science with children in front of the fire prevention publicity display board.
Photo by Huang Shanhong
Nearly 200,000 people completed the conversion
Zhou Tian, chief engineer of the Fire and Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management, introduced that in the past four years, nearly 200,000 people in the national comprehensive fire rescue team have completed the work of changing their identities, changing their ranks, changing their titles, setting posts, etc., and promoting the introduction of fire rescue titles. 31 reform supporting policies such as personnel recruitment, salary and treatment, and more than 430 local documents, and formulate and implement 18 internal management regulations such as the "Internal Affairs Regulations", "Queue Regulations" and "Disposition Regulations".
8 mobile professional detachments have been established nationwide, and more than 3,500 Chinese rescue teams, high-rise buildings, underground buildings, large-scale complexes, petrochemical enterprises, as well as professional rescue teams for earthquakes, waters, air services, and rain and snow have been established. Rescue base, forest aviation firefighting force covers 21 provinces, more than 9,800 special fire trucks and fire boats (boats) of various types, and 4.6 million pieces (sets) of personal protective equipment and emergency rescue equipment have been added. Comprehensive rescue capabilities and professional The level of disposal continues to improve.
Over the past four years, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has dispatched more than 6.22 million times, rescued and evacuated more than 2.39 million people in distress, and successfully completed the "3.21" explosion in Xiangshui, Jiangsu, the "7.20" heavy rain in Zhengzhou, Henan, Major emergency rescue missions such as forest fires in Chongqing and the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Luding, Sichuan.
In the dedication to the people, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has also made great sacrifices.
Tian Feng, deputy director of the Education and Training Department of the Ministry of Emergency Management, introduced that since the reform and transformation of the team, 139 people in the entire team have died heroically, and more than 1,100 people have been honorably injured in firefighting and rescue tasks.
The function of forest fire station has changed from focusing on post-disaster rescue to integrating prevention, resistance and rescue
Yan Peng, deputy director of the Forest Fire Department of the Ministry of Emergency Management, said that since the reform of the national comprehensive fire rescue team, forest fire protection has worked hard to achieve "five changes" in terms of functional tasks.
Among them, the task type has changed from a relatively simple forest fire fighting to "all disasters and major emergency"; the response mechanism has changed from listening to orders in the past to taking the initiative; the task area has changed from the past stubborn station to the nationwide mobile; The means of rescue have changed from the traditional mode of the past to the composite development of mechanization, informatization, and intelligence; the function play has changed from focusing on post-disaster rescue to the integration of prevention, resistance and rescue.
Yan Peng introduced that with the expansion of functional tasks, this team has also extensively participated in the rescue of other disasters.
Since the team was restructured, it has successively completed major tasks such as flood relief and rescue in the main stream of Heilongjiang, urban flood relief in Zhengzhou, Henan, search and rescue of missing persons in Ailao Mountain in Yunnan, and rescue of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding, Sichuan.
As of the end of October this year, the entire forest firefighting team has used a total of 500,000 person-times to perform more than 1,800 emergency rescue tasks, including 867 forest and grassland fires, and comprehensive rescue tasks such as flood rescue, earthquake disaster relief, personnel search and rescue, and epidemic prevention and control. 962 rise.
Forest and grassland fire danger level is high this winter
Zhou Tian introduced that from January to September this year, a total of 636,800 fires were reported nationwide, with 1,441 deaths and 1,640 injuries, and direct property losses of 5.5 billion yuan.
Compared with the same period of last year, the number of fires and losses increased by 8.19% and 2.72% respectively, the number of injured decreased by 9.64%, and the number of deaths remained the same year-on-year. The fire situation was generally stable.
At present, most parts of the country are in a fire prevention period, and the task of preventing and controlling forest and grassland fires is very arduous.
"Every year's forest and grassland fire prevention work has its own characteristics." Yan Peng said that from the specific circumstances of this winter, the meteorological and phenological conditions are relatively unfavorable, extreme weather is prone to unpredictable, and some areas have less precipitation, continuous drought in summer and autumn, and combustible materials. Dry and flammable, the fire danger level is high, and the possibility of fire caused by extreme weather cannot be ruled out.
He introduced that according to the task practice and research analysis in recent years, my country's forest fire prevention has changed from regional fire prevention to global fire prevention, from seasonal fire prevention to year-round fire prevention, and from single-point multiple occurrences in key forest areas to non-key forest areas. Point bursts, concentrated bursts of transformation.
"This trend will further develop under certain conditions. The pressure on forest fire risk prevention and fighting is increasing, and the task is getting heavier." (End)