The Draft Law consists of 9 chapters and 65 articles, of which one chapter is dedicated to "fire prevention".

The draft law inherits and supplements new regulations to overcome current difficulties and shortcomings and meet practical requirements for fire prevention activities. The draft law also stipulates more specifically the responsibilities and requirements in investment, production and business activities to ensure fire prevention safety conditions and further enhances the requirements and responsibilities in the management, supply and use of electricity and electrical equipment related to fire and explosion.

The draft law removes contents that are currently stipulated in legal documents, or in relevant technical standards and regulations, to ensure consistency and unity of the legal system.

Regarding regulations on fire fighting, Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang said that the draft law revises and supplements a number of regulations to overcome difficulties and shortcomings and improve the effectiveness of fire fighting activities, meet practical requirements and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of State management on fire prevention and fighting.

Regarding rescue, the draft law stipulates the scope of rescue activities of forces, organizations, rights and responsibilities of commanders. Along with that, it mobilizes forces, means and assets to participate, develops and practices plans, responsibilities, priorities and ensures priority rights for forces and means participating in rescue.

In addition, the draft law supplements regulations on the construction and arrangement of forces and their tasks to suit practical requirements, ensuring feasibility, consistency and unity of the legal system.

Regarding fire prevention, fire fighting, and rescue equipment, the Minister of Public Security said that the draft law has added regulations on rescue equipment, and revised and perfected the content on fire prevention and fire fighting equipment to meet practical requirements.

Regarding ensuring conditions for fire prevention, fighting, rescue activities, regulations on training, fostering, inspection, professional guidance, regimes and policies for forces participating in fire prevention, fighting, rescue...

Article 17 of the draft law on fire prevention for housing specifically stipulates conditions for ensuring fire safety for housing. Accordingly, electrical systems, cooking stoves, and places of worship must ensure fire safety; flammable and explosive substances must be kept away from fire and heat sources; there must be escape solutions; fire prevention, fire fighting, and rescue equipment and means must be prepared in accordance with actual capabilities and conditions to be ready to fight fires and escape.

For housing types with regulations on standards and technical regulations to ensure fire safety, the provisions of the corresponding standards and technical regulations shall apply. In particular, according to the draft, conditions for ensuring fire safety for housing combined with business shall comply with the above regulations and there must be solutions to prevent fire between the residential area and the business area.

Presenting the inspection report on fire prevention activities, Chairman of the National Assembly's Defense and Security Committee Le Tan Toi requested the drafting agency to continue researching and clarifying fire prevention and fighting requirements for each type of planning in order to have appropriate fire prevention and fighting solutions and designs.

It is necessary to define more clearly how to apply standards and conditions for each type of construction and project, clearly classifying the level of renovation works that require solutions and designs for fire prevention and fighting. Review and unify regulations related to authority, responsibility, order, procedures, coordination in the examination, appraisal, acceptance, and inspection of acceptance results on fire prevention and fighting.

Research and prescribe requirements and conditions for fire prevention and fighting suitable for each type of facility in each locality, especially housing combined with production and business. It is necessary to specify requirements for design and installation of electrical systems, and research and supplement regulations on management of electric vehicles...

Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong: The fire in Trung Kinh was a planning problem.

From the fire in Trung Kinh, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong said that fire prevention and fighting work encountered shortcomings when "villages became cities", land prices increased, and people expanded old houses to rent out.

Mr. Tran Thanh Man: The Draft Law on Fire Prevention does not have 'new points and new features'

Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man noted that the draft Law on Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue does not have "new points and features", while in reality, recent fires in houses and mini apartments have been very tragic.