Jeonbuk Fire Department's Full Effort for Rapid Response to Large Fires During Cheongmyeong and Hansik Periods

The Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters (Chief Jun Nak-dong) is making every effort to respond swiftly to large-scale fires such as forest fires during the Cheongmyeong and Hansik periods.

Jeonbuk Fire announced on the 3rd that from the 4th to the 7th, all fire stations in the province will enter special alert duty.

As the risk of forest fires increases due to activities such as ancestral rites, tree planting, and increased mountain visitors during the Cheongmyeong and Hansik periods, they plan to maintain a full-scale response posture to prevent fires and respond quickly in the early stages of a fire.

During this period, they plan to strengthen fire prevention and initial response systems through measures such as ▲establishing a 24-hour monitoring system in forest-adjacent villages and other areas prone to forest fires ▲strengthening patrols by volunteer firefighters for forest fire prevention and conducting emergency fire extinguisher training ▲deploying firefighting forces near major hiking trails ▲issuing fire risk warnings during weather alerts ▲establishing facility protection systems such as safety map maintenance for forest-adjacent villages ▲building cooperative response systems with related agencies for forest fires ▲and enhancing fire prevention and on-site response and situation management centered on station chiefs.

Additionally, on the 5th, when the by-elections for members of the National Assembly and local councilors are held, preventive patrols will be strengthened at 65 polling stations (49 in Jeonju, 16 in Gunsan) and 2 counting centers (1 in Jeonju, 1 in Gunsan), along with the close deployment of firefighting forces.

Jun Nak-dong, Chief of Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters, said, “As the national crisis alert for forest fire disasters has been raised from ‘Caution’ to ‘Warning’ due to the continuing dry weather, please pay special attention to safety management to prevent small sparks from turning into large-scale forest fires.”

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