The Fire Prevention, Fighting and Rescue Police Division, Ninh Binh Provincial Police Department has strengthened professional training, improving the firefighters’ skills.
Authorities in the Mekong Delta are setting up firebreaks, preparing equipment and putting up warning boards as the area’s forests face a high risk of fire in the dry season.
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.
Three firefighters from the Firefighter Police Division in Binh Tan district, Ho Chi Minh City have been awarded the orders of the State President for their bravery in a fire in 2017.
Firefighters successfully stamped out the blaze of a tanker at Port K99 in in Hai An district, the northern port city of Hai Phong on early March 11 after eight hours of battling.
The network of deep, tiny alleys running side by side are part of the mysterious beauty of old Hanoi, but they also pose a death trap for those in flats and houses along them when fire breaks out.
The firefighting forces of central Da Nang city launched a 45-day special operation on fire prevention on October 4 to ensure safety for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week slated from November 5 to 11.
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.
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