The General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) has just issued a telegram on focusing on overcoming the consequences of flash floods and landslides in Son La province and proactively responding to natural disasters in the coming time.
According to the report of Military Region 2, on the night of July 26, 2025, in the early morning of July 27, 2025, heavy and prolonged rain occurred in Son La province, causing serious damage to people and property, including 7 communes that suffered serious damage (Chieng Khoong commune, Chieng So commune, Bo Sinh commune, Sop Cop commune, Nam Ty commune, Muong Hung commune, Huoi Muoi); 6 people in Chieng So and Muong Lam communes, Son La province were buried by rocks and soil and floods, killing 3 people and leaving 3 missing; Implementing Official Dispatch No. 123/CD-TTg dated July 27, 2025 of the Prime Minister.
To proactively respond to and minimize damage to the lives and property of the State and the People, the General Staff of the People's Army requires agencies and units to:
Strictly maintain the on-duty regime, grasp the weather, meteorology, and hydrology. When a situation or complicated incident occurs, it is necessary to organize a team to strengthen and implement the reporting regime in accordance with regulations; proactively, prepare forces and means, advise and propose timely and effective handling of situations.
The Military Region 2 Command directs the Military Command of Son La province to advise local Party committees and authorities, directing competent agencies to mobilize forces and means to focus on searching for missing people (including paying special attention to ensuring absolute safety for forces participating in search and rescue); treating the injured; organizing visits, encouraging, and supporting families with deceased or missing people according to regulations; supporting families to take good care of those who have died according to local customs; mobilizing forces, materials, and means to quickly repair landslides, ensuring traffic safety; by all means, reaching areas affected by flash floods and landslides, promptly supporting people, resolutely and resolutely not leaving people hungry.
Military regions 1, 3, 4 direct the Military Commands of provinces and cities to proactively advise local Party committees and authorities to inspect and review response plans and solutions; review areas at risk of flash floods, landslides, dykes, embankments, lakes, vulnerable dams, flooded areas, isolate, evacuate, and relocate from dangerous areas when there is heavy rain, avoid damage to people and property due to carelessness, subjectivity, proactively arrange forces and means to help local authorities and people respond, overcome the consequences and search and rescue.
The Hanoi Capital Command proactively advises local Party committees and authorities to inspect and review response plans and solutions, areas at risk of flash floods, landslides, dykes, embankments, lakes, vulnerable dams, flooded and isolated areas, to prevent damage to people and property due to carelessness and subjectivity. Prepare forces and means to respond and overcome the consequences.
Units stationed in the Northern and North Central regions proactively coordinate and cooperate with local authorities to mobilize forces and means to participate in responding to and overcoming the consequences of incidents and natural disasters when required.
The dispatch of the General Staff also clearly stated that the Military Industry - Telecommunications Group in coordination with Military Region 2 mobilized forces and unmanned aerial equipment to support localities in flying to detect early areas at risk of flash floods, landslides to promptly warn and evacuate people to safety.
The General Departments: Logistics - Engineering, Defense Industry, General Department II, according to their functions and tasks, strengthen direction, urging, and inspecting units under their authority to be ready to do a good job of response work, ensuring safety of warehouses, factories, weapons and equipment, and prepare well for logistics and techniques to serve the work of responding to incidents, natural disasters and search and rescue; proactively coordinate, dispatch and promptly transport rescue and equipment to help localities respond and overcome consequences when situations occur.
Air Defense - Air Force, Corps 18: Check and review plans, organize forces and means ready to conduct flights for search and rescue, air rescue when ordered by the Ministry.
