Regulations on incident commanders in Vietnam
I have been informed that there is a new document in the field of fire prevention and fighting. So what are regulations on incident commanders in Vietnam? Thank you.
Regulations on incident commanders in Vietnam (Image from the Internet)
According to Article 21 of Decree 136/2020/ND-CP (Effective from 10/01/2021), the content is regulated as follows:
1. The incident commander in a people’s police force shall be the highest-ranking leader of the firefighting authority present at the fire scene.
2. In case where the fire spreads from one facility to another or from one facility to a residential area or vice versa before the firefighting authority arrive at the fire scene, the incident commanders of the facility and the residential area must cooperate with each other in directing firefighting operation.
3. In case where the firefighting authority has yet to reach a motor vehicle caught on fire on the premises of a facility or in a village or forest, the incident commander in charge of the motor vehicle on fire shall cooperate with the person in charge of local firefighting operation in directing firefighting operation.
4. When the highest-ranking person of the people's police force arrives at the fire scene, the incident commander mentioned in Clause 2 Article 37 of the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting shall join the firefighting command team and take orders from the incident commander of the people’s police force.
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