After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again? Chapter 722 - 489: A Bowl of Soup

The atmosphere suddenly beca chilly.

Fang Huai also stopped speaking.

"Hehehe, streamlining departnts is the general trend, and if Firefighting can take the lead in this step, that’s a good thing too."

Leader Hao, who didn’t understand the Fire Departnt very much, broke the silence.

But even the highest leadership’s statent didn’t prompt everyone to beco enthusiastic.

"Hmm..." Political Commissar Wu thought for a mont and reminded, "Leader Hao, this matter is too significant. As one of the four main departnts, the Fire Departnt occupies over an eighth of the Firefighting staffing, cutting this ans approaching twenty thousand people."

"Oh..." Leader Hao smacked his lips and nodded.

The leaders also looked towards Fang Huai.

You have to be careful with what you say, kid.

Fang Huai usually felt intimidated by this issue, just like Political Commissar Wu said; it involved too many people.

But when he really did speak up, he wasn’t willing to be suppressed at all. Setting his resolve, he insisted:

"Political Commissar Wu, I an, we should downplay administrative and bureaucratic colors, and focus more on rescue and research.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a cut. In fact, many Fire Departnt cadres co from the front line, are rich in firefighting and rescue experience, and could completely return to front-line positions.

Also... Fire prevention always needs a direction, and moreover, the term ’Firefighting’ is no longer sufficient to precisely define our work. ’Fire Departnt’ is equally inappropriate. I think it should be called the ’Departnt of Public Safety Supervision,’ focusing on inspection and approval of hidden safety hazards in public places.

This departnt, however you look at it, should be a governnt function, staffed by civil servants. This way, the local supervision chanism would naturally follow suit!

In other words, our current fire supervision... once there’s a crooked horse taking bribes during inspections, the difficulty of investigation is significant.

The Public Security doesn’t want to manage it, only wanting us to put out fires, thinking that the People’s Ard Police system and supervision should be managed by the People’s Ard Police. But with the Troops dispersed, with so few people, and Firefighting also being used by locals, it seems it should be managed locally. As for active duty offices, a provincial active duty office has just one office, a few people, all officers; do they have the capacity to manage?

Locals, on the other hand, think that issues with active duty military personnel should go to military courts, and it isn’t appropriate to interfere too much.

Ultimately, the power of supervision falls to the vertical superior’s inspection departnts, but these departnts lack local information support, external investigation authority, and enforcent rights. Relying solely on their investigations and being far from subordinates, what can they uncover?

Moreover, there’s the question of investigation effectiveness.

Based on my understanding, so of our inspection departnts, for the sake of investigation effectiveness, would go undercover to offer money to fire inspection personnel, engaging in entrapnt.

Once he got fired up, Fang Huai simply blasted everyone at the table.

Sitting in a token seat beside them, Cao Yi swallowed nervously, almost wanting to pick up his stool and join the children’s table next to them.

Man, you really have so nerve.

However, Cao Yi misunderstood the disposition of the leaders present.

The leaders simply smiled.

It seed Mayor Liu had also finished eating, and put down his chopsticks.

"Little Fang, this kind of issue is also very common in our governnt departnts. It can’t be completely resolved just by transitioning to local control. There are always more solutions than problems and we can’t deny the important role of this departnt because of a few bad apples."

"I’m not denying it, Mayor Liu." Fang Huai shook his head and said:

"When it cos to the importance of fire control, prevention cos before firefighting. However, I believe that after the separation, both sides can be more professional.

Take education, for instance. During my recent study at the school, the most obvious feeling was that firefighting and prevention are two completely different specialties. The gap between them is like the difference between Leader Hao’s Automatic Control and Computer System Engineering and my Computer Science and Technology.

They both have ’computer’ in the na, but they head in different directions.

Moreover, with the current complex rescue situation, if we lump firefighting and prevention together as one broad major, how can we talk about specialization?

Most students at our school really aren’t that smart. They can’t handle so many complex pieces of knowledge.

Then there’s the issue of promotion. Square pegs in round holes. So outstanding grassroots cadres must reluctantly move to fire prevention positions for their own promotion. A person’s excellence is shown in their specialized field, and when they’re put in unsuitable positions, many previously exceptional cadres beco just part of the crowd.

Then there’s the problem with the atmosphere... I won’t ntion the negative impact brought by the fire prevention departnt.

In short, fire prevention positions are completely society-oriented; even the military system of Firefighting couldn’t change its nature, whereas rescue positions must be utterly militarized and focused in order to solidify foundational skills and beco stronger and more professional."

Fang Huai still had a lot on his mind that he didn’t feel appropriate to voice.

Without independence, there could be no military system; it was inevitable.

"Military is military, police is police, civilians are civilians"; with that single cut, based solely on these administrative units’ considerations and such a large personnel size, Firefighting could be categorized under "civilians."

However, Political Commissar Wu said leisurely, "Little Fang, the term Firefighting is a badge of honor that generations of us have spent thirty years ingraining into people’s hearts. If we separate, can we still call it Firefighting?"

Fang Huai smiled faintly and said, "The term Firefighting is just a na; it’s fine to continue using it. The preventive publicity, facility spot-checks, and other functions—we can still carry on with them. What has won people’s hearts is our firefighting suits, our ergency suits; even if we were just called 119, the public would still recognize us. On the other hand, the authority to approve fire inspections has led to many disputes and misunderstandings with the public."