Suwon Conducts Spring Joint Forest Fire Suppression Drill with Related Agencies

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jeong Jun-seong] On the 13th, Suwon Special Metropolitan City conducted the "2025 Spring Joint Forest Fire Suppression Drill with Related Agencies" at Gwanggyo Temporary Training Center (Gwanggyo Mountain Road 349 area) in Haguangyo-dong, Jangan-gu, and inspected the forest fire suppression system.

The drill was attended by approximately 300 participants, including Suwon Mayor Lee Jae-joon, Suwon City civil servants, forest fire watchers, officials from Suwon Fire Station and Central Police Station, voluntary fire brigades, Army Unit 2819, civil servants from Yongin, Hwaseong, Uiwang, and Ansan cities, a special forest fire suppression team from the Suwon National Forest Management Office under the Korea Forest Service, officials from the Gyeonggi Provincial chapter of the National Forest Cooperative and the Korea Forest Fire Prevention Technology Association, and emergency medical personnel.

The drill consisted of △operation of an integrated command system at the forest fire site △operation of the emergency rescue control unit at Suwon Fire Station △operation of forest fire prevention ICT (information and communications technology) platform, forest fire suppression helicopters, and mechanical fire suppression systems △demonstration of state-of-the-art high-performance forest fire suppression pump trucks △inspection of inter-agency and neighboring municipal government coordination framework △training for monitoring residual fires after forest fire suppression △operation of drone forest fire surveillance system.

The drill, which began with a situation briefing, proceeded through forest fire occurrence reporting and verification, situation assessment, and requests for support from related departments and agencies. Following aerial suppression demonstrations (deployment of suppression helicopters) and ground suppression demonstrations (initial fire suppression work by fire trucks), forest fire command vehicles and mechanized systems were operated, and a situation assessment meeting was held presided over by Mayor Lee Jae-joon.

Mayor Lee Jae-joon stated, "Initial suppression is the most important aspect of forest fire response. We must continuously conduct drills as if they were real operations," and added, "This year, we have introduced advanced equipment that uses artificial intelligence to monitor forest fires, so we will make efforts to ensure there is no gap in initial suppression efforts."