Yesterday, according to the emergency management department, after full search and rescue, the remains of 30 fire fighters who lost contact in the forest fire in Muli County, Liangshan, Sichuan Province have been found, and 27 forest firefighters and 3 local cadres and masses have died. Sichuan provincial Party committee, provincial government and emergency management department are fully guiding the fire fighting and rescue, identification of the bodies of the victims, and family members' sympathy and pension. So, what is the cause of Liangshan fire? Why does this happen?
At 17:00 on March 30, a forest fire broke out in Muli County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. On the afternoon of March 31, 689 soldiers and local firefighters of Liangshan branch of Sichuan Forest Fire Brigade launched fire fighting in the primeval forest with an altitude of more than 4000 meters. In the fire fighting operation, affected by the sudden change of wind and wind direction, the forest fire broke out suddenly, forming a huge fire ball in an instant. The fire fighters on the site were in an emergency to avoid danger, but 27 forest fire fighters and 3 local fire fighters lost contact. As of last night, all the bodies of the 30 firefighters who lost contact have been found.
A forest fire broke out in lier village, Yalongjiang Town, Muli County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with an altitude of more than 3800 meters, complex terrain, steep slopes and deep valleys, and inconvenient traffic and communication. After the fire, the state and county levels immediately launched the emergency plan and put 689 people into the fire fighting operation. On the afternoon of December 31, 30 firefighters lost contact with each other due to the sudden change of wind and direction during the transition.
After the danger, the Party Central Committee, the State Council, the Sichuan provincial Party committee and the Sichuan provincial government attached great importance to it. Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, made important instructions on rescue and rescue work. State Councilor Wang Yong gave instructions. Peng Qinghua, Secretary of the provincial Party committee, made arrangements. The working group of emergency management department has rushed to the site. Yin Li, deputy secretary of the provincial Party committee and governor of the province, and the main leaders of Liangshan Prefecture Party committee and the state government led the relevant provincial and state departments to the scene to command the rescue. The local government quickly formed a front-line headquarters and an emergency response working group to fully carry out the search and rescue and fire fighting work.
The traffic communication is inconvenient in steep slope and deep valley
At about 18:00 on March 30, Liangshan Prefecture Government Information Office in Sichuan Province announced that the forest fire was caused by complex terrain, steep slopes and deep valleys, and inconvenient traffic and communication.
According to the helicopter aerial video of Xichang station of southern air forest protection station of the emergency management department released by local media in Sichuan, the fire site is steep, with pine and fir mixed forest around the fire site for more than four weeks, and the ground conditions cannot be seen in many places. The fire is mainly distributed in the northeast, northwest, West and south of the fire site. There is a fire head in the northeast of the fire field, which is strong. It is developing towards the northeast, and it is almost to the mountain gully. There is a fire head in the northwest of the fire field, which is strong, and it is developing towards the northwest. There is a fire head in the south of the fire field, which is strong, and it is developing towards the south. There is a fire head in the west of the fire field, which is of medium intensity, and it is developing towards the West. The scene of the fire field is southerly, with the wind speed of 5 meters per second.
At present, the search and rescue and fire fighting work is still continuing, and relevant information will be reported in a timely manner.
According to Zhou Tong, deputy director of Emergency Management Department of Sichuan Province, according to the preliminary information, the main difficulties of fire fighting are as follows: first, the highest altitude of the fire site is about 3700 meters, the altitude is high, the wind is strong and the direction is uncertain, and the fire is difficult to control; second, the local terrain of Muli is complex, especially the high mountains and steep slopes along the Yalong River, many places have no roads, which brings great difficulties to the fire fighting and search and rescue work The third is that the humic layer of the local forest is thick and the fire is not easy to extinguish; the fourth is that it is very difficult to get water from the mountain.
The reporter learned that according to the preliminary analysis of experts, the fire is likely to be caused by lightning, and there may also be a "flashover" phenomenon in the combustion process, which suddenly led to some fire fighters not taking refuge in time.
Zhou Tong introduced that the original scale of the Muli fire was a large fire, which should be under the jurisdiction of the local government. The local government has organized Xichang brigade and local professional rescue team of forest fire fighting Liangshan detachment to participate in the fire fighting, with the maximum number of firefighters reaching 700.
"It should be said that the local government mobilized all forces to participate in the fire fighting, and the response of the professional team was very timely. Zhou Tong said he initially learned that after the "flashover", firefighters were evacuated in two ways, one of which was a successful escape and the other was unfortunately killed.