Prime Minister requests to strengthen fire prevention and fighting work

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 21/CD-TTg dated March 12, 2024 on strengthening fire prevention and fighting work.

Accordingly, the dispatch sent to the Minister of Public Security and the Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities stated: At 9:43 a.m. on March 12, 2024, a fire broke out in a high-rise building at the O Cho Dua intersection, Dong Da district, Hanoi.

This is a crowded business location, densely populated, where there is a large number of people and vehicles passing by, causing confusion and anxiety for the people. Regarding this, the Prime Minister has the following instructions:

We welcome the functional forces and the masses, in which the core is the Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue Police force, who promptly deployed professional measures to quickly extinguish the fire completely, preventing it from spreading, ensuring the safety of people's lives and health, and minimizing property damage.

The Minister of Public Security, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, especially large cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, continue to direct the serious, drastic, effective and substantive implementation of the directions of the Government and the Prime Minister, especially Directive No. 01/CT-TTg dated January 3, 2023 on strengthening fire prevention and fighting in the new situation;

Improve the effectiveness of propaganda work, guidance on knowledge and skills in fire prevention, fire fighting, rescue, and fire and explosion safety conditions for people and facilities at high risk of fire and explosion in the area; focus on implementing plans to ensure fire and explosion safety at crowded places and festival areas .