On the afternoon of July 15, An Giang Provincial Police organized a conference to sign regulations on coordination in fire fighting, rescue and relief between the Police of An Giang, Ca Mau and Dong Thap provinces and Can Tho City.
Speaking at the conference, Colonel Diep Van The - Deputy Director of An Giang Provincial Police - said that in the first 6 months of 2026, 64 fires occurred in An Giang, Dong Thap, Ca Mau provinces and Can Tho city, killing 2 people, injuring 3 people, property damage estimated at about 29.46 billion VND; 1 explosion occurred, injuring 7 people.
The Fire and Rescue Police force of 4 localities organized 39 rescue operations, directly rescued 2 people, searched and brought up 14 victims' bodies, and at the same time removed 2 bodies trapped in traffic vehicles.
Although the situation of fires, explosions, incidents, and accidents in the area is basically controlled, there are still many potential risks of large fires arising, fires causing serious consequences for people and property.
To achieve that result, the Fire and Rescue Police force in localities has always maintained a strict duty regime. Proactively grasping the situation, deploying synchronous professional measures, preparing forces and means, promptly and effectively handling fires, explosions, incidents, and accidents, contributing to minimizing damage, protecting the lives and property of the people.
According to Colonel Diep Van The, fire prevention, fighting and rescue work is of particular importance in ensuring national security, maintaining social order and safety and creating a stable environment to serve socio-economic development. Over the past time, the Party, State, Government and Party committees and local authorities have issued many guidelines and solutions to mobilize the strength of the entire political system and the entire people to participate in fire prevention, fighting and rescue work, with the aim of curbing and reducing the number of fires and damage caused by fires and explosions.
On that basis, the signing of the Coordination Regulation between the Fire and Rescue Police force of An Giang, Dong Thap, Ca Mau provinces and Can Tho city is of utmost importance, contributing to concretizing the policy of the Ministry of Public Security on strengthening inter-regional coordination in fire prevention, fighting and rescue. The Regulation will create a unified legal basis for units to strengthen coordination and mutual support in mobilizing forces and vehicles, unifying command and operation, and at the same time improving the capacity to effectively coordinate in handling fires, explosions, incidents, and accidents of complex nature or exceeding the response capacity of each locality.
With the spirit of solidarity, responsibility and cooperation, the Coordination Regulation after being signed will soon go into practice, promote practical effectiveness, build an increasingly close, proactive and flexible coordination mechanism between the Fire and Rescue Police force of localities; thereby improving the quality of fire fighting, rescue, and salvage work, protecting the lives and property of the people, contributing to maintaining security, order and effectively serving the socio-economic development tasks of the region.
