China News Service, Chengdu, August 29th (Liu Zhongjun, Zeng Peng, Cheng Xueli) In the early morning of the 29th, the fire scene of a sudden forest fire in Liziya Village, Gaoxing Town, Huaying City, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province was under control, and the fire scene entered the stage of deep cleaning and guarding. , to ensure that the fire field achieves three nos.

  At about 3:20 a.m. on August 28, a forest fire broke out in Liziya Village, Gaoxing Town, Huaying City, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province.

After the fire broke out, a total of 222 people and 34 vehicles from the Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade's emergency communications and vehicle service brigade, special service brigade, and Liangshan detachment were dispatched to the scene of the fire.

At the same time, 242 people and 62 vehicles from the Fire Rescue Corps were dispatched. A total of 52 Huaying, Qianfeng and Linshui Professional Teams, 57 Blue Sky Rescue Teams, 22 Emerging Rescue Teams, 17 Mine Rescue Teams, and 542 militiamen participated in the rescue.

A Mi-171 helicopter from Xichang Station and a Ka-32 Helicopter from Chengdu Station of China Southern's forest protection station reinforced the fire site for investigation and firefighting operations.

Firefighters are fighting the blaze and clearing the area.

Photo by Zhou Mengjie

  It is understood that after the rescue forces arrived at the fire site in Liziya Village, Gaoxing Town, Huaying City, they found that there was an intermittent fire line of about 3 kilometers from the southern section of the west line to the south line to the east line. In order to stabilize the surface fire, it mainly spread to the northeast.

The fire site is mountainous terrain, the vegetation is mainly pine trees and weeds, and the slope of the main mountain range on the east line is about 60 to 70 degrees.

The many fires in Sichuan in 2022 are neither in the previous high fire risk areas nor in the traditional forest fire prevention period. Whether it is in Gongxian County in Yibin, Guang'an, Linshui in Guang'an, Luxian in Luzhou, Hejiang in Luzhou, or Huaying in Guang'an, the terrain is very different. The topography, forest vegetation, water source distribution and climate characteristics are very different from the previous rescue areas.

Forest firefighters are patrolling the fire.

Photo by Xu Ruifeng

  In order to fully grasp the situation of the fire scene, the Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade adopted a combination of drone aerial surveys and approaching surveys by commanders at all levels to find out key information such as the wind direction, the number of fire heads, the spread trend, and the distribution of water sources, and to determine the main attack direction. , fire fighting tactics, scientific formation, has successfully extinguished 6 forest fires.

Forest firefighters are clearing the fire.

Photo by Fu Xiaohua

  "It is the first time that a forest firefighter has encountered a fire in a high temperature weather above 43°C, and it is rare." The forest firefighters involved in the rescue said that before approaching the fire line, everyone must spray the other party's protective clothing and then launch an impact on the fire line. .

As of 20:30 on the 28th, there were no obvious smoke ignition points along the entire fire site, but the UAV thermal imaging survey showed that there were many scattered hot spots in the burned area, which were suspected to be unextinguished underground fires.

  At present, the forest fire in Liziya Village, Gaoxing Town, Huaying City, Guang'an has entered the guarding stage to prevent the re-ignition of the fire line caused by strong winds at night. "Three no" (no fire, no smoke, no gas).

At the same time, the Guang'an Meteorological Department has also made preparations for artificial precipitation.

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