China News Service, August 22. According to the official Weibo news of the Ministry of Emergency Management, recent high temperatures and droughts have continued in the south, and forest fires have occurred in many places. The forest and grassland fire prevention situation is not optimistic, including most of Jiangxi, northern Hunan, most of Chongqing, and Sichuan. The forest fire danger level of eastern and northern Guizhou is level 3 (higher danger), and some areas are level 4 (higher danger).
In particular, local areas such as Chongqing and Sichuan continue to be hot and dry, and there is a large accumulation of combustibles in forest areas, which puts great pressure on forest and grassland firefighting.
On August 22, the National Forest Defense Office and the Emergency Management Department video dispatched the forest and grassland fire-fighting work in five provinces and cities in Chongqing, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, and Guizhou to understand the fire-fighting situation and the progress of fire-fighting, emphasizing the need to quickly mobilize all forces Carry out scientific firefighting, strengthen professional command, ensure firefighting safety, and make every effort to "fight early and small fights" to resolutely curb the trend of frequent forest fires.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to effectively improve the political position, unify the thinking and understanding, and implement it, always put the safety of people's lives and property and ecological safety in the first place, strengthen the sense of responsibility and risk, adhere to bottom-line thinking and limit thinking, and pay attention to each. Items of forest and grassland fire prevention measures.
It is necessary to consolidate the implementation of responsibilities at all levels. Party committees and governments at all levels must adhere to the principle of "same responsibilities for the party and government, and two responsibilities for one post", strictly implement the responsibility system of local administrative heads, and earnestly implement the "forest chief system" to promote the implementation of responsibilities at all levels.
Forest defense indicators at all levels and their offices must perform their functions of guidance, coordination, and supervision.
All relevant departments should link up the chain of "prevention" and "rescue" by strengthening industry supervision and division of labor, and all business units should implement full-cycle management and earnestly perform the main responsibility of forest and grassland fire prevention.
It is necessary to strengthen the implementation of source management, seize the source of the disaster chain and make concerted efforts to ensure the "first pass" of fire source control, the "first line of defense" of publicity and education, the "first process" of early warning and monitoring, and the investigation of hidden dangers. "Important part".
It is necessary to strengthen the implementation of emergency response, based on extreme situations, pay more attention to normal prevention and control, emergency response, extraordinary response, and safety bottom line, promote the "three fronts" of force, equipment, and command, launch plans in a timely manner, respond decisively, and improve safety and rescue capabilities.
In response to the current severe firefighting situation, the National Forest Defense Office, the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration sent a joint working group to Chongqing to guide forest fire fighting. The Ministry of Emergency Management has issued reminder letters and orange warning notices to 15 provinces. , and urgently dispatched fire-fighting materials, dispatched 4 helicopters and more than 2,800 national comprehensive fire rescue teams to carry out fire fighting at the fire sites in Sichuan and Chongqing.