China News Service, August 26. According to the official Weibo news of the Ministry of Emergency Management, since August 9, rare extreme high temperature weather has occurred across the country, especially in Beibei, Banan, Dazu, Changshou, Jiangjin and other places in Chongqing City. forest fire.
As of 8:30 on the 26th, with the joint efforts of all parties, all open fires in the forest fire have been extinguished, and they have been fully transferred to the cleaning and guarding stage, with no casualties and loss of important facilities.
The picture shows the assembly of fire and rescue personnel.
Photo courtesy of Rong Media Center, Banan District
Since the fire broke out, the National Forest Defense Office and the Emergency Management Department quickly launched a level IV emergency response, and immediately dispatched two working groups led by Xu Ping, a member of the Party Committee of the Ministry and the director of the Forest Fire Bureau, and the responsible comrades of the Fire Prevention and Management Department to Chongqing. Commanded and guided, and deployed more than 1,200 commanders and fighters from the Gansu Forest Fire Brigade and the Chongqing Fire Rescue Brigade in the early stage of the rescue operation, and urgently dispatched 6 helicopters and more than 1,000 people from Yunnan and Sichuan forest fire brigade for cross-provincial reinforcements. 2 batches and 16,634 pieces (sets) of materials and equipment supported the first-line firefighting, and carried out the firefighting work in an effective and orderly manner.
It is understood that affected by extreme high temperature weather and other factors, the forest fire in Chongqing broke out in a short period of time, and the fire fighting work faced many difficulties.
The continuous high temperature leads to a short fire-fighting window, especially in the afternoon, when the temperature rises and the wind increases, and the unpredictability of forest fire behavior increases, which greatly threatens the safety of fire-fighting personnel. Affects fire-fighting water supply guarantee and helicopter water intake; multi-line forest fires have high intensity, low vegetation ignition point, rapid spread, and frequent extreme fire behaviors such as flying fires; the fire site has special terrain, high mountains and steep slopes, criss-crossing valleys, and dense vegetation, etc. All adversely affect the fire fighting work.
The picture shows that on the evening of August 25, a spontaneously formed motorcycle team was transporting personnel and materials back and forth on the rugged mountain road.
Photo by He Penglei
According to statistics, more than 14,000 rescue forces at all levels and various types, more than 3,100 sets (sets) of forest fire fighting equipment, and 10 helicopters have been invested in the rescue of forest fires in Chongqing, and more than 1,800 people from more than 680 households have been transferred in time.