"Emergency Mission·2026" Chongqing Chongqing Forest Fire Fighting Exercise was held in Chongqing

China News Service, Chongqing, November 9 (Reporter Liu Xianglin) On the 9th, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government jointly held the "Emergency Mission·2026"-Chongqing heavy and large forest fire fighting exercise in Fengjie County, Chongqing. The exercise involved more than 1,600 rescue personnel of various types and more than 150 sets of main combat equipment. It focused on testing new tactics for fighting forest fires in southwest mountainous areas, such as the coordination of ground forces and air forces, the coordination of manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, and the coordination of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.

This exercise aims to promote and improve the ability to fight forest fires in extreme scenarios. It adheres to a problem-oriented approach and is driven by systematically solving the practical problems of fire fighting in southwest alpine forest areas such as "difficulties in global perception, power projection, and water supply guarantee". It simulates the karst landforms and mountain vertical climate of Xinglong Town, Fengjie County. For severe forest fire scenarios in high mountain areas, around the entire process of forest fire handling, 30 drill subjects including multi-model collaborative fire extinguishing and emergency communication networking will be set up in five stages: front-line preventive action, grassroots early handling, city and county joint handling, national reinforcement handling, and district and county fire field guarding.

The exercise adheres to practical exercises and adopts the method of combining headquarters dispatching and command with on-site actual troop drills to comprehensively display seven key contents including fire briefing and grassroots disposal, digital force dispatch and mobile assembly, battlefield reconnaissance and surveillance, transfer of dangerous personnel at the fire scene, establishment and operation of on-site command organization, important target protection, air-ground coordinated fire-fighting and rescue operations, residual fire cleanup and fire scene guarding, and all types of participating rescue forces1 More than 600 people, more than 150 sets of main combat equipment, and more than 40 fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, UAVs and other types of aviation force are used, covering main aircraft types such as Il-76, AG600, MA60, C909, Wing Loong-2, and Scorpion. According to local conditions, the aviation operation mode of "same field at different times, different areas at the same time, and different heights in the same area" and the aviation fire-fighting tactics of "matching high and low, combining long and near" are studied and developed according to local conditions.

The person in charge of the exercise said that this exercise innovated a new model of digital command, transparent battlefield, and new qualitative empowerment operations, and demonstrated a new pattern of emergency management mechanism construction of central-local linkage, military-civilian linkage, and city-county linkage.

This exercise also targeted seven new rescue capability comparison test subjects such as "cliff fire fighting, remote water supply, equipment delivery, situational awareness, and airspace management" to select new equipment, new technologies, new materials, and new tactics suitable for forest fire prevention and extinguishing, and put them into practice demonstration applications.