Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Directive No. 46/CT-TTg dated December 23, 2024 on a number of urgent solutions in fire prevention, fighting and rescue at facilities with fire and explosion risks, and crowded places during the New Year and Lunar New Year 2025.
According to the directive, some key and urgent tasks have not been seriously implemented by some ministries, branches and localities, such as:
Control of business conditions for karaoke and discotheque services is not really drastic and strict; many establishments still violate fire prevention regulations.
Some localities have not clearly assigned responsibilities to functional departments, branches, district-level People's Committee Chairmen, and commune-level People's Committee Chairmen in inspecting, urging, and guiding implementation; and have not reviewed and strictly handled fires and explosions that cause serious damage in the management area.
Inspection, guidance, and requirements for implementation of solutions and conditions to ensure fire safety for multi-storey houses, multi-apartment houses, individual houses combined with production, business, and rental houses are not drastic and ineffective.
Many localities have not yet issued documents guiding urgent solutions to strengthen fire safety conditions according to the direction of the Prime Minister in Directive No. 19/CT-TTg.
It is forecasted that in the coming time, the fire and explosion situation will continue to develop complicatedly and unpredictably, especially at the end of the year. To proactively prevent, the Prime Minister requests:
Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities regularly and continuously organize fire prevention and fighting inspections at 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 violation of regulations, temporary suspension or cessation of operations must be resolutely imposed.
The Minister of Construction shall coordinate with the provincial People's Committees to direct competent authorities to review and inspect the granting of construction permits for all types of works, houses, and houses combined with production and business.
Strictly handle cases of illegal construction, unauthorized conversion of functions from individual houses to other types of production and business without ensuring fire safety conditions.
Localities that have not yet issued documents guiding urgent solutions to strengthen fire safety conditions must urgently issue them before December 30, 2024 to organize serious and effective implementation.
Require household owners, heads of multi-storey houses, multi-apartment houses, individual houses combined with production and business (including rented houses) to commit and have a roadmap to implement fire prevention and fighting enhancement solutions issued by the Provincial People's Committee and must complete the implementation of the solutions before March 30, 2025.
After the above time, if the organization does not implement it, it must stop operating until it is completed.
The Chairman of the People's Committee of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall clearly assign responsibilities to the functional departments, branches, Chairmen of the People's Committees at the district level, and Chairmen of the People's Committees at the commune level in fire prevention and fighting work in each locality.
Specify the responsibilities of each level, each sector, and each individual in state management of fire prevention and fighting to have measures to review and strictly handle any fire or explosion that causes serious damage in the area.
Chairmen of People's Committees at all levels must take responsibility if fires or explosions occur, causing serious damage to people and property in the areas and fields under their management.
