Strictly handle violations of fire prevention and fighting during Tet 2025

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Directive No. 46/CT-TTg dated December 23, 2024 on a number of urgent solutions in fire prevention, fighting, and rescue at facilities with fire and explosion risks, and crowded places during the New Year and Lunar New Year 2025.

According to the directive, in order to proactively prevent and contain fires and explosions, and minimize damage caused by fires and explosions, the Prime Minister requests ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees to continue to seriously and effectively implement the directives of the Secretariat, the National Assembly, the Government, and the Prime Minister on fire prevention and fighting; identify this as a regular and key task of agencies and units; review the tasks assigned in the central government's directives to focus on implementing them on schedule and ensuring quality.

The Prime Minister requested to increase propaganda about fire and explosion risks, regularly train in escape and fire fighting skills, disseminate knowledge and legal regulations on fire prevention and fighting safety conditions for each construction, facility, house, and house combined with production and business.

Regularly and continuously organize fire prevention and fighting inspections for facilities with fire and explosion hazards, and crowded places during the New Year and Lunar New Year 2025.

Strictly handle violations of fire prevention and fighting. In case of serious violations, the operation must be temporarily suspended or terminated.

The Prime Minister requested the Minister of Public Security to urgently issue or advise competent authorities to issue documents guiding the implementation of the Law on Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue, which has just been passed by the National Assembly and will take effect before July 1, 2025, ensuring consistency and timeliness when the Law comes into effect.

Direct the police of units and localities to launch a peak campaign on propaganda and inspection of fire prevention and fighting safety for facilities with fire and explosion risks, and crowded places; focus on inspection and guidance to overcome loopholes and shortcomings, and strictly handle violations of fire prevention and fighting according to regulations.

The Ministry of Public Security strengthens training and professional development in fire prevention, fire fighting and rescue for civil defense forces, forces participating in protecting security and order at the grassroots level, grassroots fire prevention and fire fighting forces, and specialized fire prevention and fire fighting forces to effectively implement the "4 on-site" motto, ready to organize effective and timely fire prevention and rescue right at the locality and facility when fires, explosions, accidents, and incidents occur.

The Minister of Construction shall coordinate with the provincial People's Committees to direct competent agencies to review and inspect the granting of construction permits for all types of works, houses, houses combined with production and business. Strictly handle cases of illegal construction, cases of arbitrarily converting the function of individual houses to other types of production and business without ensuring fire prevention and fighting safety conditions.

The Minister of Industry and Trade directs the electricity sector to regularly inspect, propagate and provide guidance on ensuring fire prevention and fighting safety in the use of electricity for daily life and production.

Localities that have not yet issued documents guiding urgent solutions to strengthen fire prevention and fighting safety conditions must urgently issue them before December 30, 2024 to organize serious and effective implementation.

Require household owners, heads of multi-storey houses, multi-apartment houses, individual houses combined with production and business (including rented houses) to commit and have a roadmap to implement fire prevention and fighting solutions issued by the Provincial People's Committee and must complete the implementation of the solutions before March 30, 2025 according to the direction of the Prime Minister in Directive No. 19/CT-TTg. After the above time, if the organization does not implement, it must stop operations until the implementation is completed.

In urban areas where traffic infrastructure and fire fighting water sources are not guaranteed, it is necessary to immediately develop a plan for water supply, water storage, and arrange fire fighting, rescue and salvage equipment and vehicles.

Assign specific tasks, arrange permanent and on-duty forces and means, ensure adequate equipment for civil defense forces and forces participating in protecting security and order at the grassroots level to be ready to rescue victims and fight fires when fires, explosions, accidents, and incidents occur right at the locality and grassroots level...