On September 21, to analyze the situation of forest fire danger and arrange the forest fire prevention and extinguishing work in autumn and winter, Hengyang held a video conference on forest fire prevention in autumn and winter. Huang Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, vice mayor and executive deputy chief commander of the Municipal Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

The meeting reported the city's forest fire prevention and fire fighting work since 2023. Taking into account the meteorological forecast and the forest fire prevention and fire fighting situation in autumn and winter this year, Huang Li pointed out that disaster-causing risk factors such as hot weather caused by a succession of sunny days, excessive accumulation of combustibles, hot holiday tourism, and fire use in peak agricultural seasons, are very prominent.

Huang Li requires that all departments should base ourselves on the overall situation, firmly establish the bottom line thinking, consolidate responsibility, and focus on key areas, key periods, key links, and key groups. Meteorological, emergency and forestry departments should study and predict the change trend of forest fire risk, so as to achieve closed-loop management of early warning, response and disposal. It is necessary to resolutely implement the prevention measures of high-risk climate forest fires, organize the investigation and rectification of forest fire hidden danger and the control of fire hazards in power transmission and distribution facilities, control the use of fire in production and life in an orderly manner, and strictly crack down on the illegal use of fire in the field. Meanwhile, we should organize routine publicity and warning education into villages and households to make people full aware of it. We should accelerate the construction of forest fire barrier system and forest fire reservoir in two years, strengthen the construction of forest fire prevention teams, and build a good monitoring system of tower guard and make full use of it. Finally, we should make and improve the plan at the current level as soon as possible, strengthen the consultation and judgment, strengthen the training and exercise of the fighting forces at all levels, and prepare in advance, so as to comprehensively improve the prevention and fighting ability in forest fire prevention and fire fighting work.

Relevant staff from all member units of the municipal forest fire prevention headquarters, the county and urban forest fire prevention headquarters, and the Hengyang front detachment of the Hunan mobile detachment attended the meeting.

Translator: Jing