Preventive measures for forest fires

The main causes of forest fires

1. Fire source management is difficult to control, and fire prevention awareness is weak. Residents in forest areas are engaged in farming, burning wasteland, lighting wasteland, offering sacrifices, burning paper and incense, and walking in the forest. Some bad fire-using behaviors such as heating, lighting, and littering cigarette butts can cause forest fires. However, only appropriate criticism and education can be carried out for the above-mentioned behaviors, but it cannot prevent such behaviors from the root cause, which greatly increases the hidden dangers of forest fires. This increases the difficulty of forest fire prevention work and makes it more difficult to manage fire sources in forest areas. Secondly, most people in forest areas have the mentality of "it has nothing to do with them, hang on high" and "whoever burns the mountain will go to jail", which makes it difficult to carry out fire prevention publicity in forest areas and has a weak awareness of forest fire prevention work. In addition, most of the management and protection personnel are aging and there is a serious shortage of professional team members. They are highly mobile and tend to focus on one thing at the expense of another, which also makes forest area management and fire prevention work difficult.

2. Natural factors are difficult to predict. In recent years, with the process of industrialization, carbon emissions have increased, causing the climate to continue to deteriorate, with persistent drought or high temperature, and high fire hazard weather becoming more and more frequent. There are many tending residues, weeds and shrubs in forest areas, accumulation of dead branches and rotten leaves, and an increase in combustible materials, which are also the main reasons for frequent forest fires.

3. It is difficult to predict forest fires in forest areas. The terrain and landforms of forest areas are complex, there are many tree species and diverse growth structures. Therefore, forest fires in forest areas are generally sudden, and they are widespread and geographically widespread. Due to their rapid spread and lack of time to deal with, forest fires are usually not discovered at the first time, which brings great difficulties to forest fire prevention work.

4. Fire prevention publicity is not in place, and responsibilities are not implemented in place. For a long time, many places have neglected fire prevention publicity, and responsibilities have not been implemented. Forest fire prevention publicity work is limited to formalities, to cope with inspections, and no It is impossible to fundamentally improve people's awareness and enthusiasm for forest protection and fire prevention. Therefore, forest fires do not receive high attention from the people.

Preventive measures for forest fires

1. Strengthen fire source management and effectively eliminate fire hazards.

During the period of high risk of forest fires, all use of wild fires is strictly prohibited to effectively eliminate various fire hazards. In terms of mountain entry management, we should prevent all types of fire from entering the mountain and fundamentally eliminate fire hazards. Conduct detailed inspections of key personnel and areas. There is a strict system for wild fire use. If it is really necessary to use fire for production in forest areas, it must be approved by the competent department and obtain a "Fire Use Permit" before using fire. Implement fire prevention measures, set up checkpoints, checkpoints, etc. at the main entrance into the forest area and assign dedicated personnel to take charge. Set up forest fire prevention checkpoints in scenic areas, prohibit anyone from carrying fire sources, and conduct real-name registration of all personnel and vehicles. Set up obvious fire warning signs and hang fire warning banners on major roads and densely forested areas in key areas, strengthen publicity and education for people entering grasslands and forest areas, and ensure the long-term effectiveness of fire prevention work.

2. Strengthen fire prevention responsibilities and pay close attention to fire management.

Each responsible unit needs to establish and improve detailed and operable emergency plans, establish and improve a forest fire prevention command system that is lean and efficient, has smooth information, quick response, and strong support, implements and improves rules and regulations, and forms a unified command and Full-featured, responsive and efficient forest fire prevention operation mechanism. The leader should take overall responsibility, and implement the forest fire prevention work within the jurisdiction of the people and the hilltops, forming a good situation in which everyone performs his or her duties and is jointly responsible for the management.

3. Strengthen the construction of professional fire prevention team system.

Strengthen the construction and drills of professional fire prevention teams to improve emergency response capabilities to fires. Combined with local realities, build an emergency plan system and make plans for possible situations; strengthen plan drills, improve emergency response capabilities, and establish a joint defense system. Strengthen the construction of full-time teams, deepen fire prevention assessment methods, and strictly implement personnel accountability systems to truly implement forest prevention work.

4. Increase publicity on forest fire prevention.

Increase efforts to ensure the durability of forest fire prevention publicity, and do a good job in publicity during critical periods of fire prevention work.

Make full use of various channels and forms to make fire prevention publicity known to everyone and become a household name.

Escape and self-rescue measures for forest fires

Once you encounter a fire in the forest, you should try your best to stay calm, use local materials, and protect yourself as soon as possible. You can take the following protective measures and escape skills , in order to escape safely and quickly:

1. The harm caused to people in forest fires mainly comes from high temperature, thick smoke and carbon monoxide, which can easily cause heat stroke, burns, suffocation or poisoning, especially carbon monoxide has the Latent nature will reduce people's mental acuity, making it difficult to detect after poisoning. Therefore, if you find yourself in a forest fire area, you should cover your mouth and nose with a damp towel. If there is a water source nearby, you can soak your clothes.

2. When encountering a fire in the forest, you must pay close attention to the change of wind direction, because this shows the direction of the spread of the fire and also determines whether your escape direction is correct. You should escape against the wind, and you must not escape with the wind. Practice shows that when strong winds above level 5 blow at the site, the fire will get out of control. If you suddenly feel that there is no wind, you should not be careless. This often means that the wind direction will change or reverse. If you cannot escape, it will easily cause casualties.

3. When smoke and dust attack, cover your mouth and nose with a wet towel or clothes and escape quickly. If you cannot escape in time, you should lie down on a flat ground with no combustible materials nearby to avoid the smoke. Never choose low-lying areas or pits or holes because they are prone to deposits of smoke and dust.

4. If you are surrounded by fire halfway up the mountain, run down the mountain quickly and avoid running up the mountain. Usually the fire spreads upward much faster than people can run.

5. Once a fire comes, if you are in the downwind direction, you must face the wind decisively to break through the fire circle, and do not evacuate with the wind. If time permits, you can actively light a fire to burn the surrounding combustibles. When a clearing is burned, quickly enter the clearing and lie down to avoid smoke.

6. After successfully escaping from the fire scene, pay attention to prevent the invasion of mosquitoes, snakes, wild beasts or poisonous wasps. Friends traveling in groups or together should count the number of people. If anyone is left behind, they should seek help from local firefighting and disaster relief personnel in a timely manner.