On October 4, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh signed and issued a telegram on the urgent implementation of response work to storm No. 11 (storm Matmo).
Regarding the recovery of the consequences of storm No. 10 and floods, the Chairman of Hanoi requested relevant agencies and units to urgently complete the work of reviewing, evaluating, and compiling statistics on the damage caused by storm No. 10 (storm Bualoi) and floods, flash floods, and landslides.
At the same time, focus on supporting people who still have to evacuate, relocate, and repair damaged and damaged houses; fix essential infrastructure, first of all, areas, flooded areas, and unresolved incidents, according to the request of Hanoi leaders.
Hanoi leaders note to combine the work of cleaning, clearing water flows, lowering lake water levels, draining and lowering buffer water on the domestic and suburban drainage system to be ready to respond to storm No. 11 and possible rain and floods.
Focus on directing the handling of environmental cleaning and hygiene; restore production, business, service activities, and the circulation of goods, especially agricultural production to create conditions for people to soon stabilize their lives and ensure local economic growth.
Continue to do a good job of propaganda, mobilization, and promotion of ethnic traditions, mobilizing the cooperation of philanthropists and compatriots, especially the business community to share and support people in disaster-affected areas across the country to overcome difficulties and losses, and soon stabilize their lives.
Chairmen of People's Committees of wards and communes continue to closely monitor warnings, forecasts and developments of weather and natural disasters to regularly notify and provide timely guidance for people to proactively prevent, respond and overcome the consequences of minimizing damage caused by natural disasters and incidents.
At the same time, focus on leading and directing the implementation of measures to respond to storms, focusing on ensuring the safety of people's lives, especially the elderly, children, students and other vulnerable groups; protecting houses, warehouses, factories, headquarters of agencies, units, educational and medical facilities, dike systems, dams, infrastructure works, production, business activities, agricultural production; reviewing plans, being ready to organize evacuation and relocation of residents to ensure safety before storms make landfall, deploy rescue and relief work when bad situations occur.
Organize and arrange forces to be ready to direct traffic, guide traffic, limit people from crossing culverts, spillways, deep flooded traffic routes, fast-flowing water, and roads with incidents or at risk of landslides; prepare forces, materials, and means to overcome incidents, ensuring smooth traffic on major traffic routes when heavy rain occurs.
Strengthen inspection of the dyke system, promptly detect and handle dyke incidents from the first hour; prepare adequate forces, materials, and means to be ready to respond to possible bad situations; strictly implement patrolling, guarding, and protecting dykes during the flood season according to regulations.
Proactively review and prepare plans to evacuate people, move assets to safe places in areas with dangerous landslides or at risk of dangerous landslides, areas with low-lying terrain, areas frequently flooded by heavy rain, areas near riverbanks, areas affected by incidents, landslides, isolation ( note the areas between the Red River in Hong Ha ward and Minh Chau commune; areas where landslides and rock subsidence occur in the communes of Ba Vi, Yen Xuan, Quoc Oai, Suoi Hai, Kieu Phu, Phu Cat, Ha Bang...; areas directly affected by floods in the communes of Xuan Mai, Phu Trang, Quang Bi, Phu Phu, Phu Phu...).
Commander of the Capital Command, Director of the City Police: direct and be ready to arrange forces and means to coordinate with relevant forces to deploy natural disaster prevention, control and response work according to regulations. Review the implementation of fire prevention, fire fighting, rescue and relief plans at key facilities, works, and residential areas at risk of insecurity due to natural disasters and incidents; guide traffic flow, regulate road, waterway, and railway traffic when storms make landfall and heavy rain occur.
The Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment directs coordination with the Department of Construction, the Departments of Agriculture and Environment of border provinces to operate and regulate the drainage system to effectively prevent and combat flooding in the city. Direct Irrigation Companies to coordinate with the People's Committees of wards and communes to be ready to deploy flood prevention and control plans, protect agricultural production, aquaculture (for areas that have not been harvested); proactively drain buffer water, lower the water level of reservoirs, operate pumping works in the area to ensure suitability with each pepper area.
Direct inspection, review, and preparation of incident handling plans, ensuring safety of lakes, dams, irrigation works, dykes, and natural disaster prevention. Direct inspection of landfills and waste treatment areas, ensure that these areas have reinforcement measures to avoid storms causing overflow, discharge of waste and hazardous waste into the environment; organize environmental treatment and water resources in areas affected by rain, storms, floods, and inundation.
The Director of the Department of Construction directs Hanoi Drainage Company Limited, Hanoi Green Tree Parks Company Limited, Hanoi Lighting and Urban Equipment Company Limited, and clean water suppliers, coordinate with localities and related units: Strengthen on-duty work, be ready to promptly deploy the work of preventing and combating flooding in the inner city, coordinate the operation and treatment of drainage to prevent flooding in the suburbs (especially pay attention to flooded areas in the inner city from storm No. 10, need the most effective response solutions); review, pruning, prevent, prevent, and repair fallen trees on urban roads; ensure public lighting safety, traffic light signals, and provide enough clean water for people in flooded areas and natural disasters.
Direct the review, inspection, and readiness to implement plans to ensure the safety of collective houses, old, degraded apartment buildings, unsafe areas, under construction works, and apartment basements that are vulnerable to storms, floods, natural disasters, and inundation. Direct relevant departments, offices and units to coordinate with the City Police and People's Committees of wards and communes to review and be ready to deploy traffic diversion plans, arrange forces to guide and ensure traffic safety; prepare equipment to support the clearance of traffic congestion at locally flooded areas; promptly handle incidents to prevent traffic congestion.
Direct timely notification of routes at risk of flooding, inundation, unsafety, and congestion on VOVs and mass media.
The Director of the Department of Education and Training directs inspection and readiness to deploy plans to ensure safety for teachers and students, school facilities, and classrooms in the city when natural disasters occur; based on the developments of rain, storms, and floods in the area, proactively direct students at all levels to stay home from school to ensure safety for students and teachers.
The Director of the Department of Science and Technology directs the review and assurance of smooth communication, serving the work of leadership, direction, management of prevention, control, response, and overcoming the consequences of storms, floods, inundation, and natural disasters; proactively coordinate and update forecast information, meteorological warnings, hydrological warnings and weather and natural disaster situations, regularly inform and warn on social networking platforms to ensure timeliness and accuracy to each citizen.
Departments, branches and sectors, according to their assigned functions and tasks, proactively direct and organize the implementation of natural disaster prevention and control work in the assigned state management field, promptly coordinate and support localities in responding and overcoming situations.
Encourage agencies and organizations to arrange for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers to work online on Monday (October 6) when natural disasters occur.
