China News Service, Beijing, September 25 (Reporter Chen Su) The reporter learned from the State Forestry and Grassland Administration of China ("National Forestry and Grass Administration") on the 25th that a total of 525 forest fires occurred in China from January to August this year. There were 27 casualties.
On the 24th, the National Forestry and Grass Administration held a national autumn and winter forest and grassland fire prevention and safety production work scheduling meeting. The data released by the meeting showed that from January to August this year, a total of 525 forest fires occurred nationwide, with 2,610 hectares of forest affected and 27 casualties. The number of people was 48.0%, 66.3% and 32.5% respectively compared with the same period last year. There were 12 grassland fires and 3388 hectares of grassland were affected. Compared with the same period last year, the area of grassland affected decreased by 46.7%.
The meeting analyzed and judged the situation of fire prevention in autumn and winter, arranged for the deployment of forest and grassland fire prevention and safety production in the national forest and grass system, and required all localities to take effective measures to do a good job in forest and grassland fire prevention and safety production to ensure that no major forest and grassland fires and major fires occurred in autumn and winter. Casualty accidents.
The meeting requested that it be combined with the full implementation of the forest chief system, compact local administrative heads’ fire protection responsibilities, strengthen supervision and inspection, and deepen the responsibility system for fire protection packages. At important time nodes, seize important scenes, focus on key populations, and carry out fire hazard investigations. And risk mitigation work, and resolutely curb the frequent fires caused by man-made causes.
The meeting pointed out that to strengthen the construction of forest fire prevention infrastructure, it is necessary to plan fire escapes and isolation belts before the end of the year to strictly prevent "home fires going up into the mountains" and "mountain fires entering the city."
We will do a good job in implementing the classification and step-by-step implementation of the forest and grassland fire risk survey, strengthen the application of science and technology, and improve the level of scientific fire prevention.
Strengthen emergency preparedness and early fire disposal. Provinces and regions that enter the fire prevention period should enter the state of war in time, strengthen monitoring and early warning, formulate response measures under different fire risk conditions, complete with strong fire prevention and avoidance equipment, carry out carry-on patrol, and take strict precautions Casualties occurred.
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