Fire prevention and fighting is the responsibility of every person and every household.

PV:Could you tell us some outstanding results in fire prevention and fighting and rescue work in recent times?

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Thanh:Strictly implementing the regular work and combat readiness, since the beginning of the year, the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Department, Provincial Police has dispatched 362 fire trucks and 2,318 officers and soldiers, directly participating in timely and effective fire fighting and rescue of fires, accidents and incidents occurring in the province.

Guiding hundreds of people to escape in fires and accidents; directly rescuing 3 people; searching and recovering 21 bodies of drowning and accident victims; the value of saved assets is estimated at hundreds of billions of VND, protecting dozens of hectares of forest.

Along with that, the Police DepartmentFire Prevention & RescueDeveloped plans and deployed 42 vehicles and 368 officers and soldiers to participate in ensuring security and order, fire safety for political, cultural and social events taking place in the province. Coordinated the organization of 46 firefighting drills, mobilized many forces and vehicles to participate; guided 1,638 establishments to organize their own firefighting drills.

PV: It is known that up to now, the province has built many models of "Fire Prevention and Fighting Safety Inter-family Groups", "Public Fire Fighting Points"... How do you evaluate the effectiveness of these models?

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Thanh:Up to now, in Nghe An province, there have been 1,118 "Fire Safety Inter-family Teams" and 2,197 "Public Fire Fighting Points" built and put into operation.

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In 2024, the Provincial People's Committee successfully organized the Provincial Fire Safety Inter-family Team Competition, and at the same time, the Nghe An Provincial Team won the First Prize of the National Fire Safety Inter-family Team Competition, Round 2, Region III held in Binh Dinh.

The models of "Fire Prevention and Fighting Safety Inter-family Group" and "Public Fire Fighting Point" have been built to contribute to raising awareness and sense of responsibility for fire prevention and fighting among the local people.

The operation of the model is the “extended arm” of the Fire Police force to the locality and facility. From there, it minimizes fire and explosion incidents, as well as improves skills in using on-site fire fighting equipment and tools when a fire or explosion occurs.

Through monitoring, after implementing many models in the province, more than 60% of fires that occurred were extinguished by the local fire prevention and fighting force and the people themselves. In particular, fires in households and houses combined with production and business were promptly detected by the Fire Prevention and Fighting Safety Joint Team and the people, using fire fighting equipment equipped in the households to control and extinguish, preventing the fire from spreading, and at the same time organizing their own escape and moving assets in time, preventing loss of life and property.

Therefore, the implementation of the model of "Fire Prevention and Fighting Safety Inter-family Group" and the model of "Public Fire Fighting Point" is very practical in order to promote the motto of "4 on-site", make good use of the "golden time" in fire fighting; enhance the initiative and mutual support among families in a residential area, and at the same time prepare means and tools to organize fire fighting, rescue and relief work when a fire or explosion occurs.

The practical implementation of the model of "Fire Prevention and Control Inter-family Group" is that in addition to each family equipping themselves with fire fighting and rescue equipment, self-checking and maintaining fire safety conditions for their family, when a fire occurs, adjacent families in the group all receive a fire alarm signal to promptly support each other in carrying out fire fighting and rescue work in a timely manner, not allowing the fire to spread, causing a large fire with serious consequences.

PV:To continue to perform well the fire prevention and fighting task in the coming time, what tasks and solutions will the Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue Police force focus on, comrade?

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Thanh:In the coming time, the Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue Police force will continue to promote the work of grasping the situation, improving the quality and effectiveness of staff work to effectively perform the functions of the Standing Office of the Provincial Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue Steering Committee, and advise on the dissemination and comprehensive and extensive implementation of the Law on Fire Prevention, Fighting and Rescue (expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the 8th Session (October 2024).

In particular, focusing on implementing many important policies such as removing existing problems and difficulties in fire prevention and fighting work for construction works; enhancing socialization, increasing mobilization of social resources in the field of fire prevention and fighting and search and rescue; creating conditions for further expansion of fire prevention and fighting activities for establishments and enterprises.

In addition, the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police force continues to promote propaganda work with rich and diverse content, forms and methods, suitable for each type and target; build a strong movement for the whole people to participate in fire prevention and fighting in the province, following the motto "4 on-site". Build, supplement and replicate excellent advanced models and examples; at the same time, publicly announce on mass media cases of particularly serious violations of the provisions of the law on fire prevention and fighting but slow or not yet resolved so that departments, branches, localities and people can participate in monitoring.

The Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Force continues to improve the quality of fire safety inspections, promptly detect shortcomings and loopholes, and strictly handle violations of fire safety regulations. At the same time, strengthen regular work, prepare forces and means to handle and promptly respond to incidents at crowded places, events and festivals in the area...

PV: Can you tell us about the purpose, meaning and message of National Fire Prevention Day?

Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Thanh:On October 4, 1961, President Ho Chi Minh signed the Order promulgating the Ordinance regulating the State's management of fire prevention and fighting work. This is one of the earliest ordinances issued by our State, demonstrating the importance of fire prevention and fighting work.

To strengthen the effectiveness of state management of fire prevention and fighting activities, protect human life and health, protect the property of the State, organizations and individuals, protect the environment, ensure political security and social order and safety, the 10th National Assembly passed the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting. The Law took effect from October 4, 2001, clearly stating that fire prevention and fighting is the responsibility of every agency, organization, household and individual in Vietnam. The Law also stipulates that October 4 of each year is "National Fire Prevention and Fighting Day".

In fact, fire and explosion can happen anytime, anywhere if we are subjective and negligent. The consequences of fire and explosion are very serious, affecting security and order, the lives and property of everyone. Building a movement for the whole population to participate in fire prevention and fighting activities is a regular and long-term measure, with important strategic significance in fire prevention and fighting management.

Therefore, together with the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Force, each citizen, each local government, each agency and organization needs to actively participate in the mass fire prevention and rescue movement, considering it one of the important tasks.

On National Fire Prevention and Fighting Day, let's spread the message "Fire prevention and fighting is everyone's responsibility, preventing fires and explosions is the happiness of every home".

PV: Thanks comrade!