Which department is responsible for firefighters?

Fire fighting belongs to the Armed Police Force and is managed by the Fire Department of the Ministry of Public Security.

Although the Fire and Rescue Bureau belongs to the national emergency management department, the local emergency management bureau only has the right to guide the construction of fire brigades, detachments, brigades and stations, but has no direct management and command. The local city (district) fire brigade is managed by the provincial (municipality directly under the central government) corps.

Fire control is an administrative establishment, and the emergency management department sets up fire stations to go down to provinces, cities and counties, that is, fire rescue corps, fire rescue detachment and brigade. The internal structure has been adjusted. Firefighters are not civil servants. Fire protection is an administrative unit.

Fire forces are mainly active public security. Included in the armed police sequence. Under the dual leadership of the Ministry of Public Security and the Armed Police Headquarters. One of the eight police types of the Armed Police Force. Enjoy the treatment of active servicemen. And it belongs to the public security forces (frontier fire fighting forces). To put it bluntly, he is wearing a military uniform and a policeman.

Fire fighting is to eliminate hidden dangers and prevent disasters (that is, to prevent and solve man-made and natural and unexpected disasters that people encounter in the process of life, work and study). Of course, in the early days of people's understanding, the narrow sense means: (put out) fire.

Local people's governments at all levels are responsible for fire control work within their respective administrative areas. The fire brigade belongs to the Chinese People's Armed Police Force, which is the military management department and is under the dual leadership of the armed police and the public security. Functionally, the fire brigade carries out fire fighting and rescue work, and the fire station is a specialized fire law enforcement and management supervision department within the Public Security Bureau.

legal ground

According to Article 8 of the Fire Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), local people's governments at all levels should incorporate fire protection planning, including fire safety layout, fire stations, fire water supply, fire communication, fire truck access and fire equipment, into urban and rural planning, and be responsible for organizing their implementation.