According to the Kien Giang Provincial Forest Protection Department, the 2024-2025 dry season is entering its peak, with severe heat affecting forest fire prevention and fighting. Kien Giang has about 41,000 hectares of forest assessed as high-risk for fire. Some places have high-level forest fire warnings such as Phu Quoc City (level 5 is extremely dangerous), Giang Thanh, Kien Luong, Hon Dat, An Minh districts (level 4 is at high risk).
Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Kien Giang province, Le Huu Toan, said: through inspection, the water level of canals in the forest is depleted, lower than the peak of the dry season in 2024.
Faced with the above situation, the province has resolutely and synchronously directed solutions and solutions for forest fire prevention and fighting, organized forest fire drills, proactively arranged stations, checkpoints, forces, vehicles, and appropriate equipment for each key area.
In Phu Quoc City, the area with an extremely dangerous forest fire warning has recently organized a forest fire prevention and fighting drill to improve the ability to command, mobilize forces, vehicles and ensure fire safety. The commanding forces, local fire fighting teams and armed forces in Phu Quoc are trained to operate equipment thoroughly, ready to respond when an incident occurs.
Mr. Nguyen Phu Nam - Deputy Director of Phu Quoc National Park - said: "Training is not only to operate the coordination regulations between the command board, the national park management board, the People's Committees of communes, wards, armed forces and people in the area, but also to accompany propaganda work, protection work, and forest fire prevention and fighting work. We hope to strengthen the relationships to minimize forest fires.
The province also directed relevant functional agencies and units to increase their 24/7 duty, patrol, inspect, promptly detect and deploy forces to extinguish newly arising fires, preventing major and serious forest fires, especially on holidays, holidays, nights...
In addition to fire prevention, forces coordinate with localities with forests to propagate and mobilize people to participate in forest fire prevention and fighting, arrange signs and signs prohibiting entry into the forest during the dry season, strictly control and prevent people from illegally entering and leaving the forest. Forces visiting each house of people living along the forest require signing a commitment to use fire, burn fields, burn bees, and hunt in areas near the forest...
