China News Service, March 18 (Xinhua) According to the WeChat official account of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the current situation of forest and grassland fire prevention and extinguishing across the country is severe and complex.
Forest fires have broken out one after another in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. Among them, forest fires in Yajiang County and Kangding City, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province are being put out.
A working group composed of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the National Fire and Rescue Bureau, and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration has arrived at the scene to guide the fire fighting work.
On March 17, the National Forestry Prevention and Control Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a video dispatch meeting to connect key provinces such as Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan to further deploy forest and grassland fire prevention and extinguishing. Work.
Peng Xiaoguo, director of the National Forestry Prevention Index Office and member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Emergency Management, made targeted arrangements.
The National Forestry Prevention and Control Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management emphasized that firefighting safety must always be tightened and safety responsibility measures must be tightened at all levels to ensure the safety of firefighting personnel and the people.
It is necessary to scientifically command firefighting, give full play to the role of professional command, strengthen the coordination of ground personnel and air forces, and improve the efficiency of the entire fire fighting process; the main leaders must implement scientific policies based on dangers, and leaders must be responsible for regional firefighting, and make every effort to reduce firefighting risks and disaster losses. to the lowest.
It is necessary to strictly control fire sources, scientifically organize forest rangers, mass organizations, and professional teams to increase the protection of key areas, strictly prevent fire from going up the mountain and into the forest, and resolutely avoid illegal use of fire in the wild combined with extreme weather to cause fires; in-depth carry out dynamic clearing of major hidden dangers of forest and grassland fires. and special actions to investigate and deal with illegal fire use to ensure that major hidden dangers are dynamically cleared; strengthen fire prevention publicity, warning education, inspection and supervision, and improve the public's awareness of the rule of law and fire prevention awareness.
It is necessary to implement the safety system, strictly implement fire safety requirements, highlight flight safety supervision, organize firefighting in a safe and orderly manner, and resolutely prevent casualties; strengthen fire scene safety management and control, promptly and decisively evacuate threatened people, make every effort to protect important facilities, and resolutely prevent and contain mass deaths. Mass injury accident.
Up to now, the national comprehensive fire rescue team has mobilized more than 2,230 people to fight forest fires in Yajiang County and Kangding City, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, including more than 950 people from the Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade, more than 750 people from the Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade, and more than 530 people from the Sichuan Fire Rescue Corps; The Southern Aviation Forest Range Station of the Ministry of Emergency Management has deployed 8 helicopters, and aviation rescue helicopters from surrounding provinces are ready for reinforcements.