Gyeonggi-do Autonomous Disaster Prevention Corps Strengthens Heatwave Prevention Activities

The Gyeonggi-do Autonomous Disaster Prevention Group is strengthening heatwave prevention activities.

Gyeonggi Province is significantly strengthening its heatwave damage prevention activities.

On the 18th, Gyeonggi Province announced that the local autonomous disaster prevention teams and the Provincial Autonomous Disaster Prevention Association will intensify heatwave damage prevention efforts until the 30th to prevent heat-related illnesses caused by the prolonged heatwave.

The main focus is on workers vulnerable to heatwaves, such as those working in rice paddies and fields, and outdoor construction site workers. The local autonomous disaster prevention teams, which operate at the village level, will concentrate on vulnerable areas such as rice paddies, fields, and outdoor construction sites, and will inform residents about heatwave coping measures. In particular, they plan to recommend refraining from work during the high-risk daytime hours (14:00?17:00).

The Gyeonggi Province local autonomous disaster prevention teams are civilian-based regional disaster prevention organizations, with over 9,900 members active in villages across 31 cities and counties.

Choo Dae-woon, Director of the Natural Disaster Division of Gyeonggi Province, stated, "It is difficult to manage the more than 120,000 construction sites and approximately 100,000 farming households vulnerable to heatwave damage throughout the villages in the province with only public personnel. We expect that the local autonomous disaster prevention teams, who know their regions better, will carefully monitor these areas and help create a safer Gyeonggi Province and local communities."

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