China News Service, Guangzhou, April 1 (Cheng Jingwei Linyin) A reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau on April 1 that as Qingming Festival approaches, various parts of Guangdong Province are intensively deploying Qingming forest fire prevention work. The forest firefighting team is on standby at any time, with 30,000 people. A number of forest rangers have strengthened patrols on forest hills to prevent major forest fires.
Forest fire prevention and extinguishing drills. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau
It is reported that the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday is a period of high incidence of forest fires in Guangdong. In late March, many places in the province also received continuous reports of forest fires. The forest fire danger situation is severe and complex. Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau issued a notice requiring all localities and units to truly implement fire prevention responsibilities at the grassroots level and decompose them to every forest management entity, every hilltop, every piece of forest land, and every forest graveyard and cemetery to protect fire protection. Lin, keep an eye on people and control fire. Recently, Maoming, Guangzhou, Qingyuan, Chaozhou, Zhaoqing and other places have issued forest chief orders to deploy forest fire prevention and extinguishing work during the Qingming Festival.
Forest rangers patrol the forest. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau
In recent years, various parts of Guangdong have introduced innovative forest fire prevention measures. Shanwei promotes the experience of "exchanging saplings for flames" and "exchanging flowers for paper money", Jiangmen carries out cloud sacrificial activities such as "flowers + yellow ribbons" and "ribbons to send condolences", and Guangzhou has held the "Paradise Mailbox" sublimation event for many years... "cool tips" appear frequently in various places , integrating Qingming fire prevention publicity into forestry activities such as afforestation, voluntary tree planting, spring outings to enjoy flowers, nature education and forest experience.
The relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau said that the province will fully implement the on-duty requirements, give full play to the role of the "forest chief system + forest fire prevention" grid management system, and comprehensively use satellite monitoring, drone patrols, video surveillance, ground Inspections and other means are used to implement all-weather, full coverage, and three-dimensional monitoring of key forest areas and high fire risk areas to ensure early detection, reporting and early disposal of fire hazards, and to ensure that the forest fire prevention situation is stable and controllable during the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday. (over)