The article is from the public number: Seeing Ideal (ID: ikanlixiang) , author: Liang Tao, from the title figure: Figure worm creativity.
Australian wildfires have not stopped burning since September last year.
To this day, this raging fire has become the headline of major international news sections, and it can be regarded as a major global ecological disaster.
The domestic people are also very concerned about the fire situation in Australia. There have been many media reports about the fire, and many media or self-media have rationally analyzed the specific reasons why the fire is difficult to stop, but some of them have talked about Australia This fire was compared with the fire that happened in Daxinganling 33 years ago, simplifying the past disasters and even playing a “praise”.
In my opinion, this expression is a typical attitude of applauding yourself when you see the suffering of others.
Our Confucianism says, “Seeing the wise and thinking together”, and seeing the talents of others, we take the initiative to learn, “see not being wise”? “Seeing insincerity and introspection also.” In other words, to see the disadvantages of others, we need to reflect on whether we have similar problems and how to learn lessons.
But This kind of mentality of seeing others is difficult and problematic. The first thing that comes to mind is to praise yourself. First, there is no empathy, and second, the realm is not necessarily noble. .
Let’s take a closer look at the background of the Australian fire and what went wrong during the disaster relief process.
1. The fire was originally part of the ecological cycle, but the fire still requires some human intervention
In some analysis from the media, when comparing the disaster relief performances of Australia and China, it seems that they are very concerned about highlighting the difference between the two systems. They think that the Australian fire was not good, or that the relief operations were inefficient because they were too ” become free. How free is it?
The best-known example is, of course, their Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Scott Morrison) , not only late after the fire started He did not move too late, and during Christmas, he took his family to Hawaii as usual.
Of course, Morrison was criticized by the people, and he hurriedly returned home after the holidays ended. What is more “confusing” to us? Firefighters in Australia are also on holiday during Christmas. So there are many arguments saying that it is precisely becauseThe Australians were too free and easy to cause the fire to spread beyond control.
But is it really that simple?
First of all, I believe you have read a lot of popular science articles, and basically all of them mentioned that Australia’s fire protection system is currently considered to be very advanced in the world.
Australia has been the first to use aerial detection methods to observe forest fires since the 1930s. Later, it has infrared, GPS, aerial positioning, and satellite, remote sensing, aerial photography and other technical methods to help detect forest fires. .
The reason why there is such advanced and complete monitoring technology is that mountain forest fires have always been a problem that Australia needs to face.
According to previous records, at the turn of spring and summer in the southern hemisphere, Australia has a dry and hot climate, and fires often occur in forest areas.
In fact, in the natural world, regular fires in virgin forests are a common phenomenon. It is itself part of the entire ecological cycle. Without these periodic fires, the forest would be unhealthy.
But the problem is that the fire still needs a certain amount of human intervention and control, because once the fire is too large and too fierce, it will easily hurt life and destroy the ecology.
So, what should you do if you find a fire in the forest in time? Of course, fire forces need to be dispatched to fight the fire. This involves another very special Australian fire protection system.
2. A country with a sparsely populated country and a special volunteer firefighter system
You know, Australia ’s land area is the sixth largest in the world, but its population is only 25 million. This is a sparsely populated country. In such a large country, it is actually very difficult for professional fire brigades and firefighters to spread throughout the country.
So, Australia has adopted a very special system that is very rare in other countries. It employs a large number of volunteer firefighters.
This approach is relatively reasonable for the Australian situation. Because Australia has a large forest area, if a professional fire station is set up every 50 square kilometers or 100 square kilometers, and the fire brigade is required to be on standby 24 hours, this is difficult, the resources are too large, and it is difficult to provide so much manpower.
So, the most convenient and efficient way is to have residents live in the surrounding areas of the forest, let the people receive fire prevention training, and recruit them to become volunteer firefighters.
In fact, these residents are indeed the easiest to detect the fire and take some measures to extinguish it. When a fire occurs in their living environment, they will do their best to fight it out, whether for the forest or their normal life.
In order to solve this problem of volunteer firefighters, all Australian citizens must receive fire prevention education at the age of 12 and must be trained in fire fighting skills at the age of 16.
When they become volunteers, they have to go back for professional training on a regular basis. There are also professional fire prevention equipment in the community. This is to ensure that these volunteers have adequate skills and have fire protection available Equipment to face these wildfires.
However, this system and approach is not entirely without problems. Under such a system and conditions, there was also a very deadly fire in Australia in 2009, and 173 people were killed.
Since then, they also realized that they didn’t do enough fire prevention, and they should develop more stringent preventive measures.
For example, they have changed the building construction regulations and made strict regulations on building materials, requiring that these building materials must be non-combustible materials. There are also strict rules when repairing houses. The entire process requires the minimization of sparks and the use of fire-resistant building materials.
In addition, they have also strengthened early warning mechanisms, such as through mobile text messages and specific mobile apps, to let everyone know where fires have occurred in a timely manner, similar to how Japan handles earthquake and tsunami prevention.
3. This is an exhausting battle
Nevertheless, the development of this fire to its current state still reveals many deficiencies in the Australian fire protection system.
I just mentioned that they use volunteer firefighters a lot, but do n’t ignore a very important issue. In modern society, most areas are actually the same. Young people do n’t like to stay in the countryside, they like to live in big cities. . What problems does this cause in terms of fire protection?
Severe aging of volunteer firefighters.
At the same time, the backwardness and inadequate preparation of regional fire-fighting equipment also caused serious impacts. For example, in the fire, firefighters came to the scene to fight the fire, resulting in insufficient water supply for the fire truck.
These are all difficult issues brought about by the voluntary fire protection system.
So how do you solve these problems? Is it necessary to develop more professional and large-scale fire brigades? This remains a dilemma for Australia.
Let’s go back and talk about a common question mentioned earlier, is that these firefighters are really very free and loose as described by some media. Even if the fire is burning, they have no sense of responsibility and sacrifice. Still on Christmas? Of course it’s not that simple.
First, we must not be partial. Are there any firefighters on Christmas holiday? Of course, but you have to listen to such a background first.
If you are looking for the Australian news, you will find that most of the local reports are not about how the firefighters are freely scattered, but how those firefighters are in danger.
Many volunteer firefighters work 12 hours a day and have been working for several weeks. Please note that they are all volunteers, what does this mean? This means that they must not go to work or work for several weeks, and devote themselves to mountain fire fighting.
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