A brief discussion on how to do a good job in rural firefighting

In recent years, with the increase in rural fire accidents, it has sounded the alarm for rural firefighting work, which makes people sad and thought-provoking. Most of these fire accidents are due to backward firefighting concepts, weak fire safety awareness, and lack of knowledge in rural areas, resulting in fires that cannot be effectively contained and prevented. To do a good job in the current rural firefighting work, it is necessary to strengthen the sense of responsibility of governments at all levels for firefighting publicity, strengthen organizational guarantees, and include rural firefighting publicity and education into the firefighting work agenda. It is necessary to expand the channels and methods of rural fire protection propaganda work, strengthen rural fire protection propaganda work and give full play to the fire protection propaganda functions of fire departments and police stations, effectively improve farmers’ fire safety awareness and self-prevention and self-rescue capabilities, and truly keep fires away from rural areas.

1. The current status of rural fire protection publicity and education

(1) The masses have weak fire safety awareness and weak self-prevention and self-rescue capabilities.

Affected by factors such as economic conditions, traditional concepts, and cultural quality, rural people have relatively weak awareness of fire safety. They do not have the necessary fire prevention and fire-extinguishing knowledge and escape and self-rescue skills in emergencies. They are not familiar with the use of fire. There is a lack of proper understanding of the fire hazards of electricity, gas, and oil, and there are many people who operate carelessly, illegally, and blindly. Some farmers think that fire brigade charges for putting out fires, and some even don’t understand that setting fires is a criminal act. They often use setting fires to vent their personal anger and complain. With the acceleration of urban-rural integration, a large number of young and middle-aged rural people have moved to cities to work, leaving behind vulnerable groups such as the elderly, women, and children at home. However, these people have even weaker awareness of fire safety, and some elderly people have lost their ability to move. Once Fires often cause heavy losses and even casualties.

(2) Influenced by religion and folk culture, rural people use fire irregularly.

Some people burn incense and worship Buddha at home. During winter, villagers light torches at will and pile crop straws at will. Most of the fires used for making fires, cooking and heating are firewood. Open flames are often used for baking grains and keeping warm, and cigarette butts are thrown around. , Random burning of garbage and weeds, illegal use of electricity, aging, exposed, and random wiring of wires. There are many factors that induce fires, such as frequent use of fire and electricity, poor management of fire and electricity, and children playing with fire. If you are not careful, fires can easily occur. Many people like to be located in high mountains without necessary fire-fighting facilities and fire-fighting water sources. After a fire breaks out, they often cannot get timely and effective firefighting, resulting in large losses and casualties.

(3) Rural fire protection infrastructure is weak, and there are many factors that cause small fires to cause disasters.

Some township and town leaders have insufficient understanding of the necessity and importance of rural firefighting work and do not pay enough attention to it. The fire safety responsibility system is mostly written on paper and fails to be implemented; in the construction of new rural areas, the interior decoration of the house is carried out without acceptance of the fire plan, thinking that it is no one’s business to spend money to build a house, and it has nothing to do with how to build it. How to build it, resulting in overall layout imbalance, insufficient fire escapes, etc.; insufficient investment in fire hardware facilities. In some towns and villages with good conditions, fire protection facilities are relatively good, but they are not complete and safe enough. Some towns and villages that are mainly agricultural have almost no municipal water sources, which makes firefighting work impossible in some rural areas. However, some township enterprises and individual private enterprises that already have fire protection facilities have poor fire safety conditions, prominent fire hazards, and incomplete fire protection systems, resulting in fires occurring from time to time.

2. Measures that should be taken for rural fire protection publicity work

(1) Strengthen the concept of fire protection and do a good job in the "top leader" project.

First, it is necessary to strengthen the sense of responsibility of governments at all levels for fire protection publicity. Rural fire protection publicity is a social, comprehensive and scientific work. Party committees and governments are powerful forces in promoting this work. To back up, we must actively strive for the attention and support of local party committees and government leaders for rural publicity and education, give full play to the organizational and coordination roles of the party committees and governments, establish a rural fire protection publicity leading group headed by the "top leaders" of the party committees and governments, and gradually form a rural fire protection publicity leading group. The organizational network of fire protection publicity has formed a good situation of linkage between top and bottom and joint management.

It is necessary to include fire protection publicity and education as one of the government's performance assessment contents, clarify the popularization rate of fire protection knowledge in the jurisdiction, and recommend that local party committees and governments include fire protection publicity and education into the work agenda, year-end assessment, and cadre term responsibility target assessment. Only in this way can we mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of all departments, units and personnel at all levels to do a good job in rural publicity.

The second is to give full play to the role of culture, education, health, women's federations, civil affairs and other departments. Combined with the current deepening and reform of education, we will make good use of cultural rural areas and cultural poverty alleviation and other forms to send firefighting books and firefighting knowledge to rural areas, advocate scientific methods, popularize scientific knowledge, establish a scientific worldview, and gradually eliminate illiteracy and reduce ignorance. Only by strengthening the ability of rural areas to resist feudal superstition and mastering fire-fighting self-rescue techniques will the number of fires and personal injuries be gradually reduced.

(2) Strengthen functional awareness and do a good job in rural fire protection publicity.

First, we must rely on the fire protection propaganda position of rural village committees and organize village committees to carry out fire protection publicity and education activities in a planned manner. Villagers' committees should carry out mass firefighting work and organize the formulation of fire safety conventions. This is the responsibility assigned to villagers' committees by law. In fact, villagers are eager to learn about fire protection knowledge, and the village committee is also willing to do a good job in fire protection publicity, which will also reduce the difficulty of handling the aftermath of fire accidents and social stability in the future. For example, write fire protection slogans in eye-catching locations on the roadside and post fire protection posters in rural settlements to give the masses the opportunity to understand fire protection knowledge. It is necessary to formulate and implement the "Rural Safety Fire Prevention Convention" and issue and distribute rural fire and electricity safety regulations to villagers. , publicity materials on gas usage instructions were distributed to each farmer household to gradually standardize villagers' safe use of fire, electricity, and gas. During the agricultural harvest season, the Spring Festival, major holidays and fire-prone seasons, existing equipment such as village-level radios can be used to promote fire protection knowledge and continuously improve the people's fire safety awareness and self-prevention and self-rescue capabilities.

The second is to firmly grasp the school propaganda position. Students usually gather at school during class, and then disperse to their families after school. Through students, parents' awareness of fire safety can be improved, so fire protection propaganda in rural areas is relatively broad.

The third is to give full play to the role of news and public opinion propaganda positions. Using radio and television for propaganda, most of them like to watch TV programs broadcast by local newspapers and TV stations. The fire department should take the initiative to negotiate with the local radio, film and television bureau to provide some materials, frequently play some fire cases, fire protection knowledge promotional videos, expose a number of fire hazards, and scroll some fire protection slogans to remind everyone to pay attention to safety and fire prevention.

(3) Give full play to the fire protection publicity function of the fire department and police station.

First, make good use of the professional advantages of the public security fire department and play a good role as a consultant. The public security fire department must make full use of its own fire prevention, publicity, regulatory knowledge and policy advantages to serve as a good consultant to the party committee and government, and provide assistance to the party committee and government in making decisions on fire publicity. Strengthen the guidance and training on fire protection propaganda for grassroots police stations and towns and villages, and come up with some specific opinions and methods to improve their level and ability to do fire protection propaganda work.

The second is to give full play to the main role of the police station. Grassroots police stations are the vanguard of rural publicity. Rural fire protection publicity work requires the management and guidance of the police station. Rural fire protection publicity should be synchronized with daily public security management and law popularization work, and effectively play a guiding role. The police station should organize local villagers to conduct fire protection training every year. First, let them know how to prevent fires, how to carry out fire protection publicity, how to carry out fire inspections, how to put out first fires, how to correctly report fire alarms, how to correctly escape and other fire prevention, fire extinguishing and escape knowledge. And regularly issue fire protection propaganda goals and tasks. During major festivals and before crop harvest, villagers should conduct a fire protection publicity to improve the public's fire safety awareness.