China News Service, Beijing, April 25 (Reporter Zhang Ziyang and Guo Chaokai) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management of China that as of 19:00 on the 24th, there were 1,006 people from the Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade, 127 people from the Liangshan Prefecture Fire Rescue Detachment, 31 fire trucks, and 6 fire trucks. A helicopter was used to fight the forest fire in Mianning, Sichuan. 165 barrels and 383 tons of water have been sprayed by buckets.
A total of more than 2,000 people were put into the rescue at the scene, and related work is still in progress.
At 16:30 on April 20, a forest fire broke out in Shilong Town, Mianning County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. All parties organized continuous efforts to fight the fire.
On the evening of the 23rd, due to the instantaneous extremely high wind force of over 8 on the fire site, there was a sudden fire on the south side of the west line, which exceeded the control range, causing a fire on another hill 2.5 kilometers away in a straight line, forming a new fire site.
After receiving the report, Huang Ming, deputy commander-in-chief of China’s National Forest Defense and Party Secretary of the Emergency Management Department, and others immediately went to the Ministry’s Command Center to continue video dispatching and guidance on fire fighting work, and with Dai, deputy leader of the State Council’s Sichuan Forest and Grassland Fire Fighting Special Remediation Supervision Group Jianguo, the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, the Provincial Emergency Management Department, and the Fire and Rescue Corps responsible comrades connected, demanding that the people are supreme and life is supreme. Under the unified command of the party committee and the government and the on-site command, the evacuation area should be expanded and the villagers who may be threatened should be transferred in time To ensure the safety of people’s lives; accurately study the fire situation, strengthen on-site organization and command, increase rescue forces, scientifically organize fire fighting, and make full use of a variety of fire fighting methods to seize favorable opportunities to extinguish fires while ensuring the safety of firefighters.
The Emergency Management Department dispatched a working group led by Zhang Yongli, a member of the Ministry’s Party Committee and Director of the National Forest Defense Office, and arrived at the scene at noon on the 24th to guide the fire fighting work.
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