Nghe An has nearly 4,000 facilities with fire and explosion hazards.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were representatives of the Provincial People's Committee Office, departments and branches that are members of the Provincial Steering Committee.

Representatives of departments and branches who are members of the Provincial Fire Prevention and Fighting Steering Committee attended the meeting to summarize and evaluate fire prevention and fighting and rescue work in 2020 and deploy key tasks in 2021. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Due to natural disasters, droughts and other reasons, in 2020, Nghe An had 234 fires, including 65 civil fires, causing damage of nearly 11 billion VND and 158 small fires; 21 forest fires causing damage of about 50 hectares of forest; although there were no explosion incidents, there were still 33 incidents and accidents related to rescue work.

The cause of fire is electrical short circuits accounting for 42%, violations of regulations on the use of heat sources and fire sources accounting for 23%, technical problems accounting for 15%, and other causes accounting for 20%.

Representative of the Fire Police Department, Provincial Police reported on the work results in 2020. Photo: Nguyen Hai

In the context of increasing fire and explosion risks, especially at nearly 4,000 facilities with fire and explosion risks in industrial parks, clusters, markets, and high-rise buildings of 5 floors or more, the Steering Committee for Fire Prevention and Controlfire prevention, fire fighting Nghe AnThe core of which is the Provincial Police, has advised the Provincial Party Committee and People's Committee on documents to strengthen leadership and direction in fire prevention and fighting work, develop regulations on regular support levels for the positions of civil defense captains and deputy captains, and provide equipment for fire prevention and fighting...

Representatives of the Department of Construction reported on the results of the inspection of fire prevention conditions and difficulties in monitoring fire and explosion conditions in high-rise apartment buildings. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Firefighters participated in extinguishing the fire at a wood workshop in Cam Son commune (Anh Son). Photo: Document

In 2020, the province inspected 10,469 establishments, issued 705 administrative violation records, and imposed fines of over VND 1.5 billion; and resolutely directed measures to overcome violations at a number of establishments.fire prevention violation apartmentin Vinh City; forest fire prevention inspection before peak hot season.

At the conference, based on the report evaluating the work results of the Provincial Fire Prevention and Fighting Steering Committee, representatives of a number of departments and branches that are members of the Provincial Fire Prevention and Fighting Steering Committee spoke out their spirit of participation, and at the same time pointed out a number of existing points and limitations in the process of inspecting fire prevention and fighting plans, promptly supplementing plans, and strengthening inter-sectoral coordination solutions in inspecting and detecting fire risks in apartment buildings as well asforest fire prevention and fighting,fire prevention education for people, students...

The fire that damaged four fishing boats at Lach Quen wharf, Quynh Luu district, was the most damaging fire of 2020. Photo: Document

Based on the review of the fire and explosion situation in the past year, comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the efforts and responsibility of the members of the Provincial Steering Committee in investigating and clarifying the specific causes of each incident.

However, in reality, fire prevention and fighting work in the area still has many limitations, when the number of fire and explosion incidents tends to increase, from gas station fires to apartment buildings, hotels, forest fires, factories... Therefore, it is necessary to frankly draw lessons to strengthen inspection, punishment and remind people to raise awareness of fire prevention.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee concluded that it is necessary to strengthen inspection of licensing conditions for facilities with high risk of fire and explosion. Photo: Nguyen Hai

In the coming time, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested departments, branches and sectors to strengthen inspection and review when granting licenses to conditional business establishments with high risk of fire and explosion; strengthen propaganda of fire prevention and fighting awareness more effectively for people with specific plans and skills; direct the implementation of good coordination of rescue work when incidents occur.

In the near future, the province will establish a team to inspect the compliance with fire prevention regulations, especially fire hydrants in apartment buildings; require that when converting the purpose of housing to another purpose, there must be a corresponding fire prevention design plan; departments and branches need to pay attention to extreme weather manifestations to have effective fire prevention and propaganda plans, suitable for the area and management objects./.