China News Service, Beijing, March 18 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management on the 17th that so far, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has mobilized more than 2,230 people to fight forest fires in Yajiang County and Kangding City, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
At present, the situation of forest and grassland fire prevention and control across the country is severe and complex.
Forest fires have broken out one after another in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. Among them, forest fires in Yajiang County and Kangding City, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province are being put out.
A working group composed of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the National Fire and Rescue Bureau, and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration has arrived at the scene to guide the fire fighting work.
Up to now, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has mobilized more than 2,230 people to fight forest fires in Yajiang County and Kangding City, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, including more than 950 people from the Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade, more than 750 people from the Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade, and more than 530 people from the Sichuan Fire Rescue Corps; The Southern Aviation Forest Range Station of the Ministry of Emergency Management has deployed 8 helicopters, and aviation rescue helicopters from surrounding provinces are ready for reinforcements.
On March 17, the National Forestry Prevention and Control Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a video dispatch meeting to connect key provinces such as Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan to further deploy forest and grassland fire prevention and extinguishing. Work.
Peng Xiaoguo, director of the National Forestry Prevention Index Office and member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Emergency Management, made targeted arrangements.
The National Forest Prevention Directorate Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management emphasized the need to strictly control fire sources, scientifically organize forest rangers, mass organizations, and professional teams to increase care in key areas, strictly prevent fire from going up mountains and into forests, and resolutely avoid illegal use of fire in the wild combined with extreme weather to cause fires ; Carry out in-depth special actions to eliminate major hidden dangers of forest and grassland fires and investigate and deal with illegal fire use to ensure that major hidden dangers are eliminated dynamically; strengthen fire prevention publicity, warning education, inspection and supervision, and improve the public's awareness of the rule of law and fire prevention awareness.
It is necessary to implement the safety system, strictly implement fire safety requirements, highlight flight safety supervision, organize firefighting in a safe and orderly manner, and resolutely prevent casualties; strengthen fire scene safety management and control, promptly and decisively evacuate threatened people, make every effort to protect important facilities, and resolutely prevent and contain mass deaths. Mass injury accident.
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