国务院: 近几年来,我国城乡火灾损失每年以20％的速度递增。一九九二年,全国火灾直接经济损失近七亿元,接近发生大兴安岭大火的一九八七年的历史最高水平。今年火灾形势更为严峻。截止十月底,全国共发生火灾二万八千一百九十三起,死亡一千四百八十人,受伤三千八百四十七人,直接经济损失八点四亿元,是建国以来火灾最为集中、损失最为严重的时期。其中 State Department: In recent years, China’s urban and rural areas have lost 20% of their annual fire losses. In 1992, the national direct economic loss of fire was nearly 700 million yuan, close to its highest level in 1987 in the Great Hinggan Mountains. This year’s fire situation is even more severe. As of the end of October, a total of 28,193 fires, 1,480 people were killed and 3,847 were wounded in the country. The direct economic losses amounted to 840 million yuan. Since the founding of the People’s Republic The fire is the most concentrated, the loss of the most serious period. among them