Firefighters wear protective equipment to prepare to approach a fire scene in Thổ Quan Alley, Đống Đa District, Hà Nội in July 2023.—VNA/VNS Photo Tuấn Anh

HÀ NỘI — The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has announced that the city is initiating a pilot project of an application for fire management and warning, linked with the authentication of house number identities and population data in the area.

Under the first phase, from April 25 to June 30, 2024, the application will be applied for mini-apartment buildings (residences with multiple units), boarding houses in the area; residential properties combined with business operations as specified in Appendix I of Decree 136/2020/NĐ-CP in 30 districts, towns and urban areas within the city.

Under the second phase, between July 1, 2024 and September 30, 2024, the application will be applied for all establishments under fire management in the area.

Regarding the pilot implementation schedule, training for the city’s Fire Prevention, Fighting and Rescue Police Department (PC07 Department), and all district-level police will be completed by May 7, 2024.

Training for commune-level police will be completed by May 10, 2024.

It is anticipated that the city will officially run the application by December this year.

The purpose of the application is to serve State management work on fire prevention, firefighting, search and rescue; manage data on fire safety conditions, firefighting, search and rescue for each establishment; retrieve information to serve forecast situations, assessments, statistics and report when necessary.

The application also develops firefighting and evacuation plans for each household, establishment under fire management of the city; monitor traffic, water sources, fire hydrants, necessary vehicles, public fire points and safety response teams.

It aims to promote the application of information technology, digital transformation in the management of firefighting data to ensure timely exploitation, monitoring of daily data regularly, and evaluate the firefighting situation.

Thereby, it will propose solutions to address shortcomings, violations of fire prevention and firefighting, and effectively implement directives from higher authorities.

The city strives to have at least 70 per cent of the population in the area selected for the pilot project to be aware of the application.

The city also sets a minimum target of 80 per cent of incident reports regarding firefighting, search and rescue from citizens, businesses to be sent, received and processed electronically through the application, linked with the authentication of house number identities and population data. — VNS