Keyword: "firefighters"

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung ordered a prompt investigation into the cause of a house fire in Thuy Khue street, Tay Ho ward, Hanoi in the early morning of September 16 that killed five people.

Three firefighters who died while on their duty in Hanoi's Cau Giay district on August 1 afternoon were posthumously promoted to higher rankings under a decision signed by Minister of Public Security, General To Lam, on August 2.

Six people were killed and 15 houses were burned to the ground after an oil-carrying tanker truck crashed and burst into flames on National Highway 13 in the southern province of Binh Phuoc at about 4 a.m on November 22.

President Tran Dai Quang on June 19 sent a message of condolences to his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa over human and property losses caused by forest fires in central Portugal.

Hanoi will purchase two planes to improve the city's capacity to fight fires at high-rise buildings, the municipal authority has said.