Original title: The latest situation of forest fires in Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan: Three fire lines totaling about 3 kilometers, the terrain is dangerous and difficult to fight Source: CCTV News Client
At 14:30 on December 28, 2020, a forest fire broke out in Liren Village, Shangri-La Economic Development Zone, Diqing Prefecture. As of 9 o’clock on December 30, the fire was on the ground and accompanied by the canopy fire. There were three main fire lines on the fire site, distributed in the northwest line, the north line, and the northeast line. The northwest line was a continuous line of fire, about 2 kilometers long, and the north line. The northeast line is an intermittently scattered fire line, about 1 kilometer long, and the total length of the fire line is about 3 kilometers. The vegetation is coniferous mixed forest, dominated by Yunnan pine, dense shrubs and weeds. The wind direction at the fire site is southerly, with a wind force of level 4 and gusts of level 6 or more on the top of the mountain. The fire site is about 3,000 meters above sea level, with a slope of about 60 degrees, steep terrain, vertical valleys, and many rolling rocks. There are no important targets and water sources nearby.
The Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade successively invested a total of 364 officers and fighters from Diqing Brigade, Lijiang Brigade, and Dali Brigade to fight the fire. Currently, 159 members of the Lijiang Detachment drove on foot from Akali Village to the west side of the fire site on the southwest line of the fire site. They planned to select a suitable location to break through the fire line and fight from west to north to stop the open fire on the northwest line of the fire site. The southeast line enters the fire site, and it is planned to select an appropriate location to break through the fire line, and fight from east to north, to stop the open flames of the northeast and north lines; 60 commanders and fighters of the Diqing brigade enter the fire site directly from Akali village on the southwest line of the fire site to advance north, waiting for opportunities Deal with scattered fires and lines of fire on the south side of the northern and eastern routes; the local joint refers to the “dual commander” of Diqing Prefecture Committee Deputy Secretary Yu Shengxiang and deputy governor Cai Wucheng, local armed police (400 people), and local fire fighting teams (100 people) ), the fire rescue team (80 people), the cadres and the masses (200 people), a total of 780 people will be assigned to the team.
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On the morning of December 30th, due to the confluence of the sea of clouds and heavy smoke, the bucket operation could not be carried out in the air. On the 30th, the Lijiang Station of China Southern Airlines Forest Guard Station of the Emergency Management Department dispatched a total of three helicopters (two K-max and one H-125), flying 6 sorties, 13 hours and 51 minutes, to participate in fire detection and bucket fire fighting operations.
(Main station CCTV reporter Wang Xi, Yunnan Forest Fire Fighting, Zhao Shilu, Peng Guangquan, Yao Jiangnanhang Forest Guard Station Li Shiyuan)
(Edited by Lu Kaili)
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