Can Tho City People's Committee has just issued an official dispatch on implementing urgent solutions in fire prevention and rescue work at facilities with fire and explosion risks, and crowded places during the New Year and Lunar New Year 2025.
Accordingly, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City assigned the Directors of Departments, Heads of agencies, departments, and branches of the City; Chairmen of People's Committees of districts and towns, according to their assigned functions, tasks, and powers, to strengthen propaganda about fire and explosion risks, regularly train in escape and fire fighting skills, disseminate knowledge and legal regulations on fire safety conditions for each construction, facility, house, and house combined with production and business.
At the same time, regularly and continuously organize fire prevention and fighting inspections for facilities with fire and explosion risks, and crowded places during the New Year and Lunar New Year 2025; strictly handle violations of fire prevention and fighting. In case of serious violations of regulations, resolutely suspend or stop operations.
Units assign specific tasks, arrange permanent and on-duty forces and means, ensure adequate equipment for civil defense forces, forces participating in protecting security and order at the grassroots level, grassroots fire prevention and fighting forces, and specialized fire prevention and fighting forces to be ready to rescue victims and fight fires when fires, explosions, accidents, and incidents occur right at the locality and grassroots level.
The Director of the City Police Department directed the Police Department of each unit and locality to launch a high-point campaign to propagate and inspect fire safety for facilities with fire and explosion risks, and crowded places; focus on inspecting and guiding the correction of loopholes and shortcomings, and strictly handle violations of fire safety regulations according to regulations.
The Director of the Department of Construction directed the functional forces to review and inspect the granting of construction permits for all types of works, houses, houses combined with production and business; strictly handle cases of illegal construction, cases of arbitrarily converting the function from individual houses to other types of production and business without ensuring fire safety conditions.
The Chairman of the District People's Committee requires the head of a household, the head of a multi-storey house, a multi-apartment house, or a single house combined with production and business to commit to and have a roadmap for implementing solutions to strengthen fire prevention and fighting and to complete the implementation of the solutions before March 30, 2025.
