HCM City invests over 48 million USD in fire prevention, rescue
Ho Chi Minh City has invested 1.1 trillion VND (48.4 million USD) in the past two years to implement 36 projects in fire prevention and control and rescue as well as provide equipment for departments and agencies in the city.
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City has invested 1.1 trillionVND (48.4 million USD) in the past two years to implement 36 projects in fireprevention and control and rescue as well as provide equipment for departmentsand agencies in the city.
The figure was revealed during a conference held by the municipal PartyCommittee on September 1 to review two years of implementing the Party CentralCommittee’s Secretariat’s Directive 47-CT/TW and municipal Party StandingCommittee’s Directive 31-CT/TU on strengthening leadership in fire prevention,control and rescue.
Lieutenant General Bui Van Thanh, Deputy Minister of Public Securitysaid that Ho Chi Minh City has been the leading locality in the country instrengthening the leadership and direction on fire prevention, control andrescue.
However, he pointed out that many houses in inner streets of the cityhave been expanded illegally, narrowing the space for rescue work, while waterfor fire rescue has yet to access many small valleys where there is high riskof fire.
Notably, the city has over 1,000 high-rise and super-high buildings, whileit has yet to equip itself with fire rescue helicopters, causing difficultiesin rescue work in case of fire, he said.
Meanwhile, Colonel Le Tan Buu, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Departmentof Fire Prevention and Rescue, said that six wards and districts of the cityhave yet to form office for fire prevention and rescue.
He proposed that the city set up professional fire rescue teams toimprove the effectiveness of the work.
Tat Thanh Cang, Vice Standing Secretary of the city Party Committee askedthe city’s Fire Rescue Police to coordinate with relevant agencies to tightenmanagement and evacuate production facilities with high risk of fire out ofresidential areas, while popularizing escape methods in case of accident.
In the past two years, the city recorded 3,048 fire incidents, killing32 and injuring 87 others, with total property loss of about 375 billion VND.
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