August 31, 2021

USA: Orange County Teacher Says The US Flag Makes Her Uncomfortable So She “Misplaced” It And Has Students In The Classroom Pledge Their Allegiance To The LGBTQ BLM Trans Pride Flag

New York Post
written by Joshua Rhett Miller
Monday August 30, 2021

A California teacher is being investigated for saying she removed the US flag from her classroom and encouraged students to instead pledge allegiance to a gay pride banner, district officials said.

The teacher, identified in reports as Kristin Pitzen, said in video shared Friday on Twitter by the “Libs of TikTok” that her students have options as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance during her third-period English class.

“I always tell my class, stand if you feel like it, don’t stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, you don’t have to say the words,” Pitzen said in the viral TikTok post. “So my class decided to stand, but not say the words. Totally fine.”

But that became an issue since the teacher’s classroom did not have a US flag, which she removed during the pandemic because it made her “feel uncomfortable,” Pitzen whispered on the clip.

“I packed it away and I don’t know where, and I haven’t found it yet,” a giggling Pitzen continued. “But my kid today goes, ‘Hey, um, it’s kinda weird that we just stand and then, you know, we say it to nothing.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh well, you know, I gotta find it, like, I’m working on it, I got you.’”

Pitzen then shook her head and said she told the student that a flag was indeed in the classroom that he could “pledge [his] allegiance to” before shifting the camera to a gay pride banner hanging on a wall.

The Newport-Mesa Unified School District said in a statement Saturday that one of its teachers was under investigation for the controversial clip.

“Showing respect for our nation’s flag is an important value our district instills in our students and is an expectation of our employees,” district officials said. “We take this matter seriously and are investigating and addressing it.”

District spokeswoman Annette Franco declined to identify the teacher when reached early Monday by The Post.

“We take matters like this seriously and are taking action to address it,” Franco wrote in an email. “No further information at this time.”

Pitzen, meanwhile, was identified Sunday by Fox News as the educator who posted the clip. She has since removed the original TikTok video from her account, where one post remained as of Monday.

“The American flag makes me feel uncomfortable,” she wrote in text on the silent 10-second post.

A message left on a phone listed to Pitzen in Long Beach was not immediately returned Monday. In an earlier video spotted by the “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account, Pitzen showed off many gay pride banners in her classroom during Pride Month while wearing rainbow suspenders and earrings.

“I’ll never not be awkward, that’s fun for me,” Pitzen said during her self-guided classroom tour. “Happy Pride, everyone, it’s June 1, the start of Pride Month, here’s what I got going in my classroom … I pledge allegiance to the queers.”
The Post Millennial
written by James Anthony
Sunday August 29, 2021

Kristin Pitzen, a public school teacher working for the Newport Mesa School District in Orange County, California, is reportedly under internal investigation after she suggests that students recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Pride flag after she removed the American flag, because it made her "uncomfortable."

In what could turn out to be another case of inappropriate bias on the part of a public school educator, Pitzen says in the viral video that she posted to social media herself: "Okay, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance."

"I always tell my class, 'Stand if you feel like it, don't stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, you don't have to say the words,'" Pitzen continues.

"So, my class decided to stand but not say the words. Totally fine."

"Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag."

Referring to Old Glory itself, Pitzen then says that the American flag made her "uncomfortable" and continues with, "I packed it away and I don't know where, and I haven't found it yet." She then chuckles.

"So [one of my students] said, 'Hey, it's kinda weird that we just stand and say [the Pledge of Allegiance] to nothing,'" Pitzen goes on.

More chuckling and covering of the mouth by Pitzen ensues, before she continues again: "In the meantime, I tell this kid, 'We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.'" Pitzen makes the quotation signs with her fingers.

"And he like, looks around and goes, 'Oh, that one?'" she re-enacts.

She then pans the camera to show the Pride flag above and behind her.

A spokesperson for the Newport Mesa School District released the following statement to Fox News regarding the incident: "We are aware of this incident and are investigating. While we do not discuss employee related matters, we can tell you that showing respect and honor for our nation's flag is a value that we instill in our students and an expectation of our employees. We take matters like this seriously and will be taking action to address it."

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USA: High-Profile Bluecheck Democrat Writer Is Now Serving As The Communications Director For Prostasia, A Charity Whose Ultimate Goal Is To “Destigmatize” Pedophilia.

4w.pub, a publication for cancelled women, brave feminists, and heterdox thinkers
written by Anna Slatz
Sunday August 29, 2021

For many, charitable status is a legitimizing factor taken into consideration when choosing what organization or foundation to donate to. Government recognition that an entity’s work is valid enough to exempt them from taxes is often a good indicator of the work’s importance.

However, there are always exceptions.

California-based charity Prostasia is one such deviation to the rule, the organization having been given IRS tax exemption in 2018. While marketing itself as a children’s rights organization, Prostasia is a veritable grab-bag of causes surrounding sex and sexuality, but there is plenty of evidence to demonstrate that the real story is not so simple.

In Prostasia’s blog entries, “child protection” routinely ends up in the same sentences as “free speech,” “kink,” or “sex positivity.” The topics of age play, furries, hentai, and prostitution are spoken about no differently as, and often with no barrier between, child sexuality and child sexual abuse.
It is here, in the not-so-hidden depths of Prostasia’s pet causes, where it begins to mutate into something far more malicious, deviating very heavily from its veneer of supporting child safeguarding. In fact, protecting children from exposure to sex abuse seems to not just be at the very bottom of Prostasia’s to-do list, it is almost antithetical to its entire existence.

Prostasia sees the threat pedophiles pose to children as a bogeyman dreamed up by the alt-right, while condemning anti-pedophile sentiment as harmful “Nazi-like” rhetoric which requires mass censorship across social media.

The organization’s efforts have dedicated themselves to crusades against child pornography bans, letter-writing campaigns to state representatives demanding child-likeness sex dolls be kept legal, and funding research into “fantasy sexual outlets” for pedophiles.

Once these threads quickly unravel, Prostasia’s goals and underlying purpose becomes increasingly clear. Despite its attempts to role play as a mere progressive activist organization, all of Prostasia’s goals and campaigns lead to the exact same conclusion: The total normalization and acceptance of pedophilia in wider society.

Prostasia hosts a forum in which members are invited to start conversations on anything they wish without stigmatization. In many cases, the subject returns to the “liberation” of MAPs – or, Minor Attracted People – a more socially acceptable way to refer to pedophiles. Most of the pro-pedophilia discussion happens in the forum’s dedicated Sex Positivity section.

Recently, Prostasia began collaborating with an organization it calls the MAP Support Club, an unregistered group which claims to provide “peer support” for pedophiles, and invites “minor attracted people” aged 13 years old and up to participate in online chats about “minor attraction.”

In an attempt to give itself legitimacy, Prostasia employs a wide variety of pseudo-scientific jargon and quack references which they utilize as justification for their positions. But in almost no cases do these assertions find themselves very widely shared amongst academics or experts which do not have a relationship with pro-pedophilia movements or statements.

It repeatedly claims there is evidence to support that pedophilia is “comparable to a sexual orientation,” while citing Toronto psychiatrist Dr. James Cantor, who is infamous for his Tweets demanding the inclusion of pedophiles in the LGBT spectrum. Cantor is a member of the Prostasia team.
In another one of its campaigns, one focused on arguing against the necessity of the sex offender registry, it provided multiple articles written by another one of its then-staff, Guy Hamilton-Smith.

Hamilton-Smith, a lawyer in the state of Kentucky, wrote several times for the Prostasia blog that measures to keep registered sex offenders away from children, such as school-zone bans, were ineffective and unnecessary.

A quick search in the publicly available database of registered sex offenders found that Guy Hamilton-Smith was registered after being caught with child sexual exploitation material.

Most recently, writer Noah Berlatsky was taken in as a director at Prostasia. Berlatsky previously came under fire for writing an article published in New Republic under the title “Child Sex Worker’s Biggest Threat: The Police” in which he lamented the treatment of “children engaged in survival sex” by police officers. While fighting corruption within the justice system is certainly a valid issue, at no point did Berlatsky note the obvious fact that children cannot consent to sexual activity of any kind, instead spending his article suggesting that children forced into prostitution were willing participants in an oppressed, but legitimate, trade.

In 2017, Berlatsky tweeted “pedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group.”
It is not just in its narratives where Prostasia acts unlike any other charitable activist organization, but also in its behavior. Prostasia founder Jeremy Malcolm has been known to directly and personally attack those who take any issue with his organization’s campaigns.

Family lawyer and feminist activist Sarah Phillimore was vocal in sharing her experience with Malcolm, who sent her threatening emails after she discovered that yet another member of their (now ex-) staff, Jeff White, was on the sex offender registry for criminal sexual conduct with a child under the age of 13.

This author was also subject to disturbing, erratic behavior from Malcolm after calling his organization into question in 2019. Malcolm insisted I was a racist neo-nazi sympathizer, and republished photos of me as a young child with abusive captions.

Ultimately, Prostasia is no normal 503c charity, and its attempts to gain legitimacy and forward their agenda into the mainstream should not just be rejected, but actively fought against. Any individuals associated with the organization in any way should have their motivations called into question, because there is simply too much information on the group’s activities and history available out there for any excuses of good-faith ignorance to be believable.

Protecting children from sexual abuse is an important and righteous cause. But, like the vast majority of us, I’m under the impression it can be done without coddling pedophiles and their sympathizers.
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USA: Project Veritas Undercover Sting Operation Exposed Antifa Member And Teacher Admitting To Indoctrinating Students To Want To Overthrow The US Government For Communism.

The Post Millennial
written by Hannah Nightingale
Tuesday August 31, 2021

In a Project Veritas report released on Tuesday, they expose Inderkum High School AP government teacher Gabriel Gipe for politically indoctrinating students, and stating that he is turning his students into "revolutionaries."

In an undercover interview with a Project Veritas reporter, Gipe revealed that his intention is to radicalize students with Marxist ideas, giving extra credit for students that go to protests and "community events."

"I have 180 days to turn them [students] into revolutionaries … Scare the f— out of them," said Gipe in the undercover footage filmed by Project Veritas.

"I post a calendar every week … I've had students show up for protests, community events, tabling, food distribution, all sorts of things … When they go, they take pictures, write up a reflection—that's their extra credit," he added.

Gipe revealed that he indexes students' political standings throughout the year, and watches as the class inches further left. "So, they take an ideology quiz and I put [the results] on the [classroom] wall. Every year, they get further and further left … I'm like, 'These ideologies are considered extreme, right? Extreme times breed extreme ideologies.' Right? There is a reason why Generation Z, these kids, are becoming further and further left," said Gipe.

Gipe said that a student had anonymously stated on an end of year questionnaire that the Antifa flag in Gipe's classroom made him uncomfortable.

"I have an Antifa flag on my [classroom] wall and a student complained about that — he said it made him feel uncomfortable. Well, this [Antifa flag] is meant to make fascists feel uncomfortable, so if you feel uncomfortable, I don't really know what to tell you. Maybe you shouldn't be aligning with the values that this [Antifa flag] is antithetical to," Gipe said. He went on to say that a violent overthrow of the US government is a necessary solution for today's society.

"Like, why aren't people just taking up arms? Like why can't we, you know — take up arms against the state? We have historical examples of that happening, and them getting crushed and being martyrs for a cause and it's like — okay well, it's slow going because it takes a massive amount of organization," Gipe said.

Gipe also added that a "two-pronged system" is needed to overhaul the government, unlike the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

"You need a two-pronged system, which is exactly what Huey Newton and Fred Hampton [Black Panther Party] understood. You need propaganda of the deed—your economics—and cultural propaganda —as well. You need to retrain the way people think. So, the Cultural Revolution in the 60s was fixing the problem that came about after the economic one," Gipe said.
Tiger Talk published March 15, 2019: Tiger Talk profiles Mr. Gipe. "Tiger Talk" is a student news production from the Broadcast and Media Arts Pathway classes at Inderkum High School. This story profiles Mr. Gipe, by Kristina and Brittney.

"What can we do now to root out this culture that keeps perpetuating hyper-individualism, hyper-competitiveness, capitalist exploitation and consolidation of wealth … I do think that it's important to understand that as an extension of an economic revolution, they [Chinese Communist Party] were changing the base, and then they went to change the superstructure," Gipe added.

"You cannot change one without the other. You can't have cultural shifts without the economic shift, and vice versa," Gipe said.

Gipe said that he is not the only teacher with these beliefs, noting that three other teachers hold similar views. "There are three other teachers in my department that I did my credential program with—and they're rad. They're great people. They're definitely on the same page," Gipe stated.

Natomas Unified School District said via press statement it is aware of the investigative Project Veritas video and that parents as well as Natomas community members have expressed concern over the footage's content.

The school district said it will look into the matter and "take any appropriate actions as necessary." Natomas Unified also pointed to district policy, which explicitly states: "Whenever civic education includes topics that may be controversial due to political beliefs or other influences, instruction shall be presented in a balanced manner that does not promote any particular viewpoint."

The district claimed that a number of emails have come in from outside the community that express hate and threats. "There is sad irony in that outsiders are expressing displeasure towards the individual teacher while also using intense vulgarity, hate speech and threats of violence," Natomas Unified said.

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August 30, 2021

USA: Hurricane Ida Slams Into State Of Louisiana Leaving Destruction In Its Path, Levee Overtopped Leaving Homes Under Water. Power Is Out For More Than 1 Million; Residents Urged To Remain Indoors

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The Wall Street Journal
written by Arian Campo-Flores and Rachel Wolfe
Monday August 30, 2021

Storm made landfall in southeastern Louisiana Sunday on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as Category 4 hurricane.

Louisianans woke up Monday to a landscape ravaged by Hurricane Ida and the grim prospect of going days or even weeks without electricity and running water in some areas.

The powerful storm, which made landfall in southeastern Louisiana Sunday on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, left more than one million customers without power. Flooded roadways, downed power lines and debris created numerous hazards, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. Service outages at 911 centers persisted, and cell service was spotty.

The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed the first death from the storm Sunday after deputies responded Sunday night to reports of a person injured from a fallen tree and arrived to find the victim deceased.

“Sadly we know there will be others,” Mr. Edwards said.

Ida was downgraded to a tropical storm Monday with sustained winds of about 40 miles an hour as it moved north over western Mississippi.

All of New Orleans lost power Sunday night, and more than one million residents statewide remained without power Monday morning, according to data from poweroutage.us. Entergy New Orleans said it would be able to give a timeline of when power could be restored in the city once damage assessments are completed.

The company warned Sunday that some of the hardest-hit areas could face power outages for weeks, though 90% of customers may have theirs restored sooner.

“With extensive damage, we have a lot of rebuilding ahead of us,” the company said in a tweet Monday morning.

Robert Burton, a 33-year-old sign installer who rode out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, said Ida was even more intense. The storm lifted his carport and tore it down. He lacked power and running water on Monday morning and was trying to figure out how to leave the city.

“I didn’t think it was going to get that bad,” Mr. Burton said. “I was pretty terrified.”

Penny Roberts, a 46-year-old university program director, and Zac Sieffert, a 47-year-old camera operator, rode out the storm in the Pigeon Town neighborhood. Their house, which was built at the turn of the 20th century and has withstood many strong storms, made it through Ida, but seemed to struggle as it shuddered in the fierce winds. On Monday morning, large uprooted trees blocked driveways in their neighborhood and tree limbs littered the ground.

“We’re exhausted,” Mr. Sieffert said. “It’s hard to determine our next move when we’re already worn out and know the next few days will be just as tiring without relief in sight.”

On Sunday night, President Biden approved the governor’s request for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration, activating further federal aid for recovery efforts. Mr. Edwards said the state deployed more than 1,600 people to work on search and rescue efforts by Monday.

Ida now sits about 40 miles southwest of Jackson, Miss., but the threat of dangerous storm surges and flooding continued to grip southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi and southern Alabama, the National Hurricane Center said. The center said the storm surge could flood levees outside of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System, put in place after Katrina and managed by the Flood Protection Authority-East.

On Sunday, the authority said it closed the entire system consisting of levees and other protections in anticipation of the storm. Ahead of the storm, New Orleans had ordered residents living outside the $14.5 billion hurricane risk-reduction system to evacuate.

Levees performed extremely well during the storm, Mr. Edwards said Monday. “But, at the end of the day, the storm surge, the rain, the wind, all had devastating impacts across southeast Louisiana,” he said.

Cynthia Lee Sheng, president of Jefferson Parish, which abuts New Orleans, issued a mandatory curfew from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday, urging residents to stay off the roads as first responders worked to assess damage and rescue residents.

“We have got to put this community back together,” Ms. Sheng said on NBC’s “Today Show” Monday morning. “It is no time to come back. I know everybody misses home, but it is no time to come back right now.”

Heavy rain from Ida will continue to pour across the region, with another four to 8 inches expected to fall through Tuesday morning, with similar rainfall across central Mississippi and western Alabama through Monday night. Between 3 to 6 inches of rain will hit the Tennessee Valley, Ohio Valley and the central and southern Appalachians later this week, the National Hurricane Center said.

More than 133,000 customers in Mississippi were without power Monday morning, according to poweroutage.us, with outages predominantly affecting residents in southwestern parts of the state.

Wireless phone carriers reported spotty service across Louisiana Monday after the storm whipped cell towers, fiber-optic cables and network hubs. Many cell towers include backup batteries that could keep service online for a day or more until authorities restore power to the electrical grid, but damage to the infrastructure linking those towers could take longer to fix. There were few reports of network failures in nearby Mississippi.

ATandT Inc. said its Louisiana cellular network was running at 60% of its normal coverage level, with significant blackouts in New Orleans and Baton Rouge caused by power outages, flooding and storm damage. The wireless carrier said Monday it was wheeling in mobile cell towers and building up a base camp for technicians working to restore service.

A Verizon Communications Inc. spokeswoman said it was too early to tell how much of its wireless network the storm knocked offline. The company said it has portable generators with enough gasoline and diesel to keep cell sites powered.

“Once the storm subsides and it is safe to do so, our crews will begin site assessments to prioritize repairs, move mobile assets into place as needed, and activate a massive refueling operation to keep sites running until commercial power is restored,” the company said in a statement.

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ITALY: High Rise Apartment Complex In Milan Engulfed In Flames On Sunday Night. All Tenants Were Evacuated. No Injuries Reported.

9News, Australia
written by AP staff
Monday August 30, 2021

Italian firefighters have battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that spread rapidly through a 20-story residential building and poured black smoke into the air.

Residents were hurriedly evacuated.

Mayor Giuseppe Sala said there were no reports of injuries or deaths, but that firefighters were kicking down doors, apartment by apartment, to make sure there were no victims.

"We are sure that there was time to get out, but until the controls are finished, we cannot be entirely sure," Mr Sala told reporters at the scene.

He said about 20 people were evacuated without incident.

The 60-metre tall building, part of a recent development project, was designed to look like the keel of a ship and included an aluminium sail on its roof, which burned and fell to the street in pieces.

A huge plume of black smoke rose from the reinforced concrete building named the Torre dei Moro and was visible for kilometres.

Flames continued to burn inside nearly three hours after a dozen fire trucks and ambulances responded to the alarm.

One firefighter told the Corriere della Sera newspaper that the blaze was still limited when they arrived and firefighters were able to get residents out.

Within an hour, the flames had spread from the 15th floor, where the fire appears to have started, quickly devouring the entire facade of the building.

Unidentified residents told Corriere that the panels on the facade were supposed to have been fire-resistant.

Firefighters say the fire involved a 20-story building.

Plans for the project say it has 16 residential floors plus two underground.
The Telegraph, UK
written by Nick Squires
Sunday August 29, 2021

Italian firefighters battled flames that engulfed a high-rise residential tower in Milan on Sunday night.

Clouds of black smoke rose into the air as the 15-storey building on the outskirts of Italy’s financial centre burned intensely.

Firefighters went door to door, kicking down doors and making sure all the occupants of the block had managed to escape.

“They told us that the panels that covered the tower were fire-resistant, but they burned fast, like butter,” one resident told Corriere della Sera newspaper.

The fire began at around 6pm local time. Around 70 families lived in the apartment block.

Early reports suggested that unlike London's Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 71 people, no one was killed or injured in the Milan inferno.

"We’re confident that there was time to get out, but until the checks are finished, we cannot be entirely sure," Giuseppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, told reporters at the scene.

“For now we have no reports of victims or injuries. But firefighters are going from apartment to apartment, breaking down the doors to see if anyone has remained inside.”

The 200ft tall building was designed to look like the keel of a ship and included an aluminum sail on its roof, which burned and fell to the street in pieces.

A huge plume of black smoke rose from the reinforced concrete building, named the Torre dei Moro, and was visible for miles.

One firefighter said the blaze was still limited when they arrived and firefighters were able to get residents out.

The Grenfell Tower fire broke out in the kitchen of a fourth floor flat in June 2017.

Within minutes, flames had spread up the exterior of the building and by the early hours, most of the upper floors were burning.

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COMMUNIST CHINA: Dalian Kaixuan International High Rise Apartment Complex Engulfed In Flames Friday Afternoon. 818 Tenants Were Evacuated From The Building. No Injuries Reported.

Yqqlm News, China local
written by Staff
Saturday August 28, 2021

Dalian Kaixuan International fire follow-up: clean-up work around the fire site is basically completed and the aftermath disposal work is carried out in an orderly manner.

Starting from 3 a.m. on August 28, the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Dalian Jinpu New District organized relevant units to clean up the surrounding environment of the fire site of the Kaixuan International Building. Ensure the normal traffic of the surrounding two main roads. After receiving the instructions, the relevant local departments quickly assembled more than 60 sweeping workers, 3 forklifts, 3 water trucks and 3 loading and unloading trucks, and went to the site to start the cleanup work. The relevant staff of the local environmental sanitation department told reporters that from five o’clock, they entered the safe area of ​​the scene for sweeping and protection, and cleaned up all the surrounding garbage, including some residues. The seawater used to fight the fire yesterday may have some erosion on the roads. After all of them are cleaned up, the roads need to be cleaned up again with water vehicles. As of 12 noon on the 28th, the environmental clean-up work at the fire scene of the Triumph International was basically over, and the nearby Heshan West Road and the West Mountain Section of Jinma Road were all restored to traffic. Other aftermath work on the scene is being carried out in an orderly manner.

According to the monitoring data of the Atmospheric Monitoring Development Zone and the two automatic air stations in Jinzhou, affected by the fire, from 16:00 on the 27th, the PM10 concentration around the fire scene has increased, but The maximum value did not exceed the level 2 standard of “Ambient Air Quality Standard” (GB3095-2012). As the fire was brought under control, the PM10 concentration dropped significantly. After the open flame was extinguished, the atmospheric environment quality quickly returned to normal. In addition, on the morning of the 28th, the flood drainage channel near the water quality monitoring department was monitored. The monitoring results showed that the pH value, chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus concentration values ​​at the three points were all lower than the Class III standard limit of the Environmental Quality Standard for Surface Water (GB3838-2002).

After the fire broke out in the afternoon of August 27, the party working committee and office of the street where the Kaixuan International Building is located immediately carried out the evacuation of the residents on the scene and the resettlement of the affected residents. More than 1,800 people from surrounding households were evacuated in an emergency. The Xishan community arranged a dedicated phone call to confirm the location from house to house, and worked with fire rescue personnel layer by layer to arrange 747 people in nearby hotels. Subsequently, the neighborhood organized community cadres to various resettlement sites to provide residents with check-in, material distribution, etc., and mobilized psychologists from the health service center to ease the emotions of the residents, and do a good job of comforting the affected residents.

After the fire was extinguished in time, the local area quickly held an aftermath dispatch meeting and made corresponding arrangements for the aftermath: the fire protection and safety supervision departments organized manpower to quickly enter the fire scene overnight to carry out inspections and clear the remaining fire ; The Bureau of Housing and Urban-rural Development and the Natural Resources Sub-bureau and other units enter the site in time to carry out building quality appraisal and fire site cleaning; transportation and resettlement The hotel promptly completes the transfer and temporary resettlement of the disaster-stricken people, and the street where they are located actively takes measures to help the disaster-stricken people. ; Financial departments do a good job of fund scheduling to ensure that relief funds for disaster-affected people are in place in time.

A 7-hour rescue review of the “flame blue” of the retrograde danger

At 16:00 on August 27, a fire broke out in the Kaixuan International Building, Jinpu New District, Dalian, facing the raging flames , Fire commanders, public security police, community officials, and volunteers all rushed to the scene. More than 7 hours of continuous fire fighting and rescue, race against time for rescue in the fire, continued to the early morning resettlement work. The backs of all those who have gone against the fire without hesitation, the scenes of thrilling scenes are moving.

——8 At 16:02 on the 27th, the Dalian Fire Rescue Detachment received an alarm call that a fire broke out in the Kaixuan International Building in Jinpu New District, Dalian. A fire broke out in the home of a resident located on the 19th floor of Block B of the building. The fire quickly spread to the outer wall, causing heavy smoke to skyrocket. After receiving the alarm, 130 fire trucks and 634 fire rescue personnel from 39 fire brigade stations in Dalian quickly assembled. Five corporate firefighting forces, including the Western Pacific Petrochemical Fire Detachment, Dalian Port Fire Emergency Support Center, and Dalian International Airport Fire Brigade, also came to support.

——At 16:10, the first group of firefighters arrived at the fire scene to start rescue.

Dalian Fire Development Zone Brigade Steel Railway Fire Rescue Station Combat Team Leader Jiang Weidong, Second Team Deputy Team Leader Song Chunlu, and 8 other firefighters ran to the roof platform at one go and set up high voltage on the edge of the roof platform The water gun, leaned out and extinguished the fire. Before the reinforcements arrived at the scene, their task was to delay the spread of the fire from top to bottom and to block the spread of the fire from Block B to Block A. Twenty-three high-pressure spray trucks were in place one after another, shooting water jets and continuing to “strike” the flames.

This section of fire fighting The officers and soldiers climbed up to the top floor, and the video of the “confrontation” with the raging fire was circulated throughout the Internet. This top-down vertical drawing of water is the most effective and dangerous method for suppressing the fire. High-rise firefighting is a problem in fire fighting all over the world. Facing the height of nearly 100 meters and the severe fire situation of the Kaixuan International Building, Dalian Fire Fighting uses new equipment and technology to provide a strong guarantee for extinguishing the fire. Because the high-rise fire spreads extremely rapidly, forming a three-dimensional combustion. Dalian has the world’s highest ladder fire truck at 101 meters and a ladder fire truck at 90 meters to fight the fire outside the scene. At the same time, a remote water supply system is selected, and seawater from four kilometers away is pumped in for the front (fire extinguishing) water supply. This is also a unique and most advanced water supply equipment in Dalian.

——At about 23 o’clock, the open flame of the building was extinguished.

Then, the fire rescue personnel started from the 9th floor, laid fire hoses along each floor of the stairs, and searched layer by layer to confirm that all the residual fires in the building were put out. The fire rescue personnel had no sleep all night, and only fell asleep on the guardianship floor when it was dawn on the 28th.
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