This National Plan for Emergency Response to Forest and Grassland Fires is a sectoral policy document. It is developed in order to effectively and forcefully handle forest and grassland fires according to law, minimize casualties and property losses, protect forest and grassland resources, and maintain ecological security. Main tasks are set up in the Plan, including: organize firefighting actions, rescue and evacuate personnel, protecting important targets transfer of important materials, maintaining social stability. The National Forest and Grassland Fire Prevention and Control Headquarters is responsible for organizing, coordinating and guiding the national forest and grassland fire prevention and control work. The forest and grassland fire prevention and control command organizations at all levels shall establish expert groups at the same level to provide advice on forest and grassland fire prevention and control, force mobilization and use, fire extinguishing measures, fire investigation assessment planning, etc. Organized by the competent emergency management authority, forestry and grassland, public security and meteorological authorities at all levels will strengthen consultations to jointly produce forest and grassland fire warning information, and release fire warning information to the relevant departments and the public in the risk-involved area through the early warning information release platform and radio, TV, newspapers, Internet, etc. After the occurrence of fire, according to the severity of the fire, the development trend of the fire site and the local fire fighting situation, the national level response work shall be set with four response levels, namely Level IV, Level III, Level II and Level I, and relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) shall be notified to implement corresponding measures according to the response level.
China · 2020-10-26