In Longjin Town, Qingliu County, Fujian Province, when talking about Yang Jianhua, the director of the town fire station, many villagers will think of the figure who carries a blue backpack and walks into the village. Over the past three years, he has innovatively launched the "Blue Backpack Man" publicity brand, established a linkage publicity mechanism between fire station clerks and village-level volunteers, and mobile publicity teams have been stationed in villages all year round. A total of more than 10,000 home publicity and fire prevention inspections have been carried out, and the number of fires in the jurisdiction has dropped by 42% year-on-year. Recently, Yang Jianhua was awarded the National 119 Firefighting Award as an Advanced Individual.
A backpack brings safety to the elderly
The villages in Longjin Town are scattered and there are mostly elderly people. Yangjian Huawei's frontline propagandists are uniformly equipped with blue fire patrol bags, allowing the propagandists to carry their tools wherever they go. The bag is equipped with mini fire extinguishers, first aid kits, bright flashlights, electric test pens, emergency whistles and other supplies, as well as fire prevention audio players and fire prevention promotional materials recorded in dialects.
At the home of Zhuang Bizhi, an elderly man living alone in Changxing Community, Yang Jianhua found that the smoke alarm was out of power and had dust on the surface, so he tested the alarm with simulated smoke, then took out a new battery from his bag and replaced it. The whole process took less than ten minutes. "Grandma, when you hear it beeping, it means there is smoke. Go out and call for help. Try pressing this button every month. If it doesn't ring, call me." Zhuang Bizhi took the flyer and said with a smile, "I can't read it because I can't read." Yang Jianhua pointed at the alarm and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to read. Just remember one thing - when it rings, you go out."
In response to the problem of orphaned elderly people, left-behind children, and disabled people with weak self-rescue capabilities, Yangjianhua organized staff to visit all households, set up accounts one by one, and implemented a "one household, one policy" renovation plan. It equipped 245 households with smoke alarms and dry powder fire extinguishers, and installed leakage protectors and escape masks for some elderly people who live alone and have limited mobility.
One inspection, change from point to surface management
Since the beginning of summer, overtime production in small processing workshops has increased, and fire safety hazards have arisen. Yang Jianhua regularly leads a team to carry out unannounced fire safety inspections of small processing workshops, focusing on small workshops of flammable categories such as clothing and small commodity processing, and strictly investigates outstanding hidden dangers such as "three-in-one" illegal occupancy, evacuation channels blocked by goods, expired fire-fighting equipment, and unauthorized wiring of electrical lines.
The problems exposed after inspections made Yang Jianhua pay more attention to mechanism building. He compiled a unified inspection list and built a full-chain management and control system of "identification-inspection-registration-rectification-return visit". During his duties, he led a team to carry out comprehensive inspections across the entire area, visited shops and manufacturing enterprises along the street, and rectified more than 400 fire safety hazards of various types.
A competition to train the team in normal times
On September 29 this year, Qingliu County’s sixth multi-form firefighting team professional skills competition kicked off. Yang Jianhua led the team to participate in the competition and competed with the other 12 grassroots firefighting teams in the county. The competition consists of four subjects: channel erection, breaking down anti-theft windows and rescuing people, hand-carrying motorized pump water for target practice, sprinkler truck water supply and target practice, and long-distance water supply and hose replacement, which closely meet the actual needs of grassroots firefighting and rescue. In the end, Longjin Town Fire Station achieved third place in the group.
Achievements come from daily grind. Yang Jianhua puts the practical construction of village-level volunteer firefighting teams in an important position, formulates regular training plans based on grassroots fire handling needs, and conducts systematic practical training around equipment operation, fire handling, personnel evacuation, etc. The emergency response, actual combat handling, and joint operations capabilities of the town's grassroots firefighting teams have been significantly improved.
Yang Jianhua's work may seem trivial, but it connects the most important links of rural firefighting management. The villagers called him the "Blue Backpack Man", and what he did was carry fire safety items one by one into the village and drop them on people.
