Chapter 389 Extinguishing the Mountain Fire
In China, the fire brigade is a general term for the public security armed police fire brigade at all levels, the full-time fire brigade of enterprises, and the volunteer fire brigade.
Among them, after receiving the fire alarm, the public security fire brigade and the full-time fire brigade must immediately rush to the fire scene to rescue the people in distress, eliminate the danger, extinguish the fire, and rescue the people in distress, which is the obligation and duty of the fire brigade.
In addition, the fire brigade generally refers to the armed police fire brigade, which is a member of the people's police force, an important functional department of the public security department, and an important part of the national armed forces.
However, unlike ordinary public security, the armed police and fire brigades enjoy the same treatment as the troops in terms of military rules and regulations and supply standards.
The personnel of the fire brigade are also subject to the national compulsory military service, and the salaries, clothing, and living expenses of the personnel belong to the national defense expenditure, and the fire fighting vehicles, other equipment, equipment, and operational expenditures are some of the local financial expenditures.
It is not difficult to see from this that China's fire brigade is an important security force with a special military establishment and management. At the same time, it is subject to the dual control of the armed police force and the local government.
However, although the fire brigade is a professional firefighting team, it is also more than enough for the forest fire in Dadong Mountain.
Most of their training from the county is for fire rescue activities in cities and areas with dense personnel and enterprises, and for this mountainous area with more complex terrain, not only is there a lack of relevant training, but also a lack of equipment.
To take the simplest example, Dadong Mountain is about 200 meters from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and the fire faucet equipped with the fire truck equipped by the Li Cheng Fire Squadron is only 100 meters long at most, and it is impossible to reach the top of the mountain at all.
And if personnel are taken to go up the mountain to extinguish the fire, it is not only the steep terrain of Dadong Mountain that makes these professionals scratch their heads.
Even if they had specialized training in this area, the lack of personnel made them helpless in the current situation.
However, in China, the superiority of the socialist system made it easy for them to apply for support from fraternal units and other units. For example, the local garrison to make up for their own lack of personnel.
So, when Wang Yong and Dawei were still in a daze at the smoke billowing from Dadongshan in the distance, the help calls of the relevant leaders of the local government departments and the public security and fire department had already reached the garrison duty room closest to the place of the incident.
Needless to say, the closest place to this is, of course, the unit codenamed 8439 near the village near the central government.
While Wang Yong was still racking his brains to find a way to extinguish the fire without arousing the suspicion of others, the phone of Sun Hao, the commander of the surface base, called his mobile phone.
"Old Sun, is it a matter of wildfire?"
As soon as Wang Yong saw that it was Sun Hao's phone, he immediately knew that it must be because of this wildfire.
It is impossible for them to watch the wildfires rag at will and burn down this mountain forest that belongs to the property of the state and the people.
"yes. As soon as the wildfire broke out, our Xiaodongshan observation post found out. We immediately notified the local government and organized the first wave of commandos. ”
"The commandos went up?"
"Not yet, because the terrain of Dadong Mountain is complex, the mountains are high and densely forested, and because the fire is too large, the comrades of the fire department think that it is too dangerous for personnel to go directly up the mountain to extinguish the fire, and it is likely to cause heavy casualties, so they are still studying solutions. Our commandos are also on standby. ”
"Well, we are not a professional firefighting team after all, and we still have to listen to other people's fire and armed police in this regard. But we also need to use our superior forces, such as our army aviation units. Let's see if you can do your best to let them get a few tricks. Fill it with water and hoist it over the fire with an airplane?"
"There is no problem with this, we have plans and training in this area, and we have already informed the fire experts. Now I'm going to inform you, I guess it won't be long before they get on it. ”
"Okay. Let's follow the plan they studied, after all, are people professionals! That's right, given the uncertainty it brings. I think it's necessary to do some training specifically to fight wildfires and add some new equipment. ”
"It's good to train, let's just make a plan ourselves, but this increase in equipment has to be reported, and it can only be done after approval!"
"Don't be so troublesome, the equipment can be regarded as a mid-mountain village, and it will be temporarily handed over to the troops, so that a lot of trouble will be avoided. Go back and talk to a few staff officers. Let's see what equipment you'll need, and aim to extinguish the fire. ”
"Okay, I'll let someone do it, so be it."
After the phone call, Wang Yong was still thinking about buying some equipment to deal with the frequent wildfires in the area, while Dawei stared at Wang Yong with great interest.
"Hey, I mean, what kind of identity are you? Why do the garrison and the public security seem to be your subordinates, and they have to ask you for advice on everything? ”
In fact, the people in the village have long been suspicious of Wang Yong's identity. After all, after getting along for a long time, there will always be some inadvertent appearance, which makes people very suspicious.
The villagers' suspicions about Wang Yong's identity are the most reliable.
Some people believe that Wang Yong may have taken up a post in the army so that he could better coordinate the relationship between the army and the localities. In particular, this unit is specially used to protect the village, and as the head of the village, it seems normal to hold an honorary position.
In addition, there are some young people who have read too many online novels, and they think that Wang Yong may have the identity of a state secret department, and the reason is also very good.
That is, it is impossible for Wang Yong's expression during this period of time not to attract the attention of the state, according to the rhythm of online novels, if there is no position in a special department, it is not conducive to protecting him, right?
Some people also say that Wang Yong may be the head of the newly established Banshan Public Security Bureau, which was established to facilitate Wang Yong to have an official status.
Although this is all conjecture on the part of the villagers, it is quite close to the truth. It's just that they can't imagine that these identities they guess are all right, because Wang Yong is now wearing many hats, not only is he the wrong high-ranking official, the head of the superior secret force, but also the number one person in the Public Security Bureau.
About half an hour later, the deafening roar of helicopters was heard in the sky. A Mi-171 helicopter carries a huge bucket filled with water underneath. Slowly flew towards Dadong Mountain.
The military-civilian coalition to extinguish the wildfires began.
When the base was established, a series of fire extinguishing plans were formulated because of the fact that it is mountainous and prone to forest fires. This includes the use of helicopters to carry water tanks to extinguish fires when the ground personnel are unable to effectively control the fire alone.
For this reason, the base not only included the reservoir near the base into the scope of the base at the beginning of its establishment, but Wang Yong also spent a large amount of money to purchase the Mi-171 medium-sized transport helicopter to undertake this task.
In addition to helicopters, Wang Yong also plans to purchase several seaplanes with larger loads specifically for fighting wildfires and drought relief work like today's.
It's just that seaplanes are not as easy to buy as helicopters in stock, after all, seaplanes are now being replaced by other aircraft because of the narrowing of the scope of use. Very few are in stock.
Soon after the establishment of the base, Wang Yong entrusted the state to order three 200PS waterway amphibious firefighting aircraft from Russia, but due to the problem of the production cycle, the goods have not yet arrived.
The Be-200 is an improved and reduced version of the Russian Be-40 Seagull, with a maximum take-off distance of 600 meters on land, 1,000 meters on water, a water suction distance of 15 meters to 1,450 meters, a maximum ceiling of 11,000 meters, and a maximum speed of 700 km / h.
The maximum air weight is 43 tons, and it is equipped with 8 water tanks, which can carry a total of 12 tons of water for fire fighting. In addition, liquid chemical extinguishing tanks with a capacity of 1.2 × 3 meters can be installed.
The aircraft can be refueled at the airport or taxied 12-14S on the surface of the guò water in open water to draw water for fire fighting.
When the distance between the fire site and the airport is within 200 kilometers, the Be-200 aircraft can put 270-320 tons of fire extinguishing water into the fire site at one refueling, and the fire extinguishing capacity and its metamorphosis.
If the base's three Be-200PS firefighting aircraft arrive. For example, in the case of a mountain fire like Dadong Mountain today, it is estimated that only three planes flying each sortie are enough to completely control the wildfire.
Unfortunately, because there is no stock, and the production cycle is very long. It is said that the first delivery of the Be-200 aircraft will not be until January next year. As for the remaining two, they will be completed and delivered within a year.
The reservoir next to the base has enough water area for the Be-200 to take off and land normally. At the same time, the huge storage capacity of the reservoir can also ensure the huge amount of water required by aircraft to extinguish fires.
In fact. Water is the least worrying thing for Wang Yong, because the vast sea is at most 100 kilometers away from the village in a straight line.
If a huge wildfire does occur, and the water capacity of the reservoir is not enough to support the firefighting, then it is completely possible for the Be-200 to absorb enough water in the sea, fly for more than ten minutes to reach the sky near the village of Banshan, and then rain heavily to extinguish the raging wildfire.
However, because the fire was discovered in time, the burned area was not too large, and the temporarily modified fire-fighting version of the Mi-171 with the base should be able to deal with it.
I saw a camouflage-painted Mi-171 helicopter flying over the top of the mountain with a huge water tank, first hovering to a location, turning on the waterproof switch of the water tank, and at the same time the plane began to fly all the way along the direction of the mountain fire.
A huge silver-white waterfall rushed down into the sky and poured it on the raging mountain fire, which immediately suppressed the originally ferocious fire.
After the Mi-171 temporarily modified firefighting aircraft had just emptied the water in the water tank, another Mi-171 of the same model had already lifted off and slowly flew over with a huge water tank.
At the same time, a joint firefighting team composed of officers and men of the base, officers and men of the local armed police, and nearby relatives and key militia began to divide into several groups in a planned way to prepare to climb the mountain to extinguish the forest fire.
In addition, dozens of firefighting commandos, composed of firefighters and officers and men of the base, boarded a helicopter at the base airfield and prepared to descend to the top of the mountain by helicopter.
Thanks to the joint efforts of many parties, and through the joint efforts of nearly 1,000 armed police officers and men, the soldiers of the base, and the basic militia and the masses nearby, after the mountain fire raged for more than four hours, there was finally no open flame in sight.
In addition to a small number of officers and soldiers, who were still carefully searching the fire site to see if there were any hidden embers, most of them began to go down the mountain one after another to rest.
Until this time, Wang Yong also breathed a sigh of relief. If the wildfire hadn't been extinguished, he had already planned to risk suspicion of making an artificial rain in the area or sending out the Dragonrage Department to extinguish the fire with special fire extinguishing bombs.
Because the wildfire has burned all the mountains as far as the eye can see in the face of the fire for only a few hours.
Whether it was the weeds on the mountain or the pine and cypress trees, they were all burned to ashes, and with the mountain wind how high it was raised, it blew people all over their heads and faces.
The fire has been contained, or rather extinguished, if no hidden embers have been found.
However, such a fire has burned down at least thousands of acres of mountains and forests, causing huge economic and environmental losses.
Soon, a joint investigation team composed of relevant departments of the city, county, and township governments, forestry, public security, and fire departments was set up, and it was necessary to have a clear explanation of the cause of the fire. (To be continued......)